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386MAX released under GPL v3 License
- dingosity 4y agoThat's too bad. Sort of guaranteed not to be used now.
- oso2k 4y agoI'm hoping Japheth finds some useful info and adds that to JEMM. https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/Jemm https://github.com/Baron-von-Riedesel/Jemm
- jeroenhd 4y agoYes, I'm sure this 20 year old legacy, proprietary code that was requested to be released by users of the (GPL licensed) FreeDOS project now won't ever be used again. Anyone planning to use this software will need to run some kind of DOS (proprietary) or FreeDOS (GPL) so I don't know what license incompatibility this could possibly cause.
- josephcsible 4y agoWhat could you do with this if it were MIT-licensed as opposed to GPL, other than things that nobody should ever do?
- dingosity 4y agoI could use it at work.
- josephcsible 4y agoThe GPLv3, like every other FOSS license, allows commercial use. Given that, what's wrong with using it at your work?
- unixhero 4y agoYou use DOS at work? What industry are you in?
- natas 4y agoThis is great, thank you very much!
- throw0101a 4y agoFrom what I recall of the time period, QEMM from Quarderdeck was the most well-regarded software for this—or at least the most popular: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM That along with their DESQview (popular for running multi-line BBSes, at least until OS/2 came along which was an actual multitasking OS on PCs that could run DOS apps): * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview I wonder if Symantec would ever be willing to release the source code to those.
- oso2k 4y agoIt’s always a question if the source is still around now or on accessible media. Especially if said products were part of one or more acquisitions. Source control usage has only been popular the last 20-25 years. Before Linus wrote git, the Linux kernel was kind of responsible for even making the idea that source control systems should be part of the development process in popular OSS. Zip files, tarballs, directory dumps were popular in the early and mid 90s. Super hard to get sources out if it’s stuck on a special machine that wasn’t network connected, maybe exotic media like WORM drives, kangaroo drives, backpack drives, 5.25” floppies, etc.
- guenthert 4y agoOomph, the weasel world "popular" makes it hard to argue with, but source code version control systems have been around for a long time and have been, at least in commercial code, used. E.g. SCCS was first released in 1973. Linus was not necessarily wrong in refusing such for the development of Linux until he could be persuaded to use BitKeeper post-burnout, but it was an, er, contrarian stance.
- oso2k 4y agoI hear ya. Maybe you could argue that GNU, BSD or a few other groups were using SCCS but that’s relatively very few developers in comparison to the DOS, Windows 3.x, Amiga, BBC, Apple that we’re producing more code at the time. I’ve seen few bits of early NASA/JPL code and it wasn’t in source control, it was on NFS.