Each bundle is available in a package of single files for installing from HD or CD, as 1.2MB diskette images, as 720K diskette images, and as 1.44MB diskette images a total of eight packages: OD701.EXE OpenDOS 7.01 is available in two basic bundles: In a complete package with Personal NetWare (PNW), and in the Lite package without PNW. For antique collectors, there is CP/M 2.2. FAT32 & LFN drivers, and other OS and PNW support files, are also available.

The Caldera-Lineo versions 7.01 / 7.02 / 7.03 are available at the download sites listed below, and are free for private, non-commercial use. (formerly Devicelogics, Inc.) sells bootable and embedded variants of v7.03 and of its own v8.x. Ownership next passed to Lineo (originally Caldera Thin Clients, and now Metrowerks), which changed the name OpenDOS 7.02 to DR-DOS 7.02, and then released v7.03.

The next owner, Caldera Systems (now part of The SCO Group, Inc.) renamed it OpenDOS and released v7.01 and v7.02.

And it works with Windows 3.x!Ī very brief (and possibly confusing) business history: Digital Research developed DR-DOS up to v6.0, then sold it to Novell, Inc., which renamed it Novell DOS, and then developed it up to v7. Variants of it can handle large FAT32 multi-partition hard disks, networking and more. LINUX: SMALLER DISTROS COMPATIBLE WITH DOS PARTITIONSĭR-DOS and OpenDOS 7.01 / 7.02 / 7.03 The Digital Research-Novell-Caldera-Lineo DOSes, now free.ĭR-DOS, direct descendant of Digital Research's CP/M, the first OS for microcomputers, has been upgraded and expanded to compete very well against other DOSes for the PC. FREE SOFTWARE FOR DOS Operating Systems / Shells Free Software for DOSĬOMMAND INTERPRETERS / PROCESSORS / SHELLS

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