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How a college student founded a free and open source operating system

How a college student founded a free and open source operating system: Puzzle pieces coming together to form a computer screen

Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim began the project in 1994 as a replacement for MS-DOS while he was still a student at the University of Wisconsin–River Falls. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994. Recently Jim agreed to an email interview. Correspondent Joshua Allen Holm joined me in posing the following questions to Jim.

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Published on 30 June 2021 by Alan Category: SoftwareTag: College, founded, Free, Open, Operating, Source, Student, System

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