It’s FOSS: A couple of years ago, the Raspberry Pi appeared on the scene and got many people interested in basic computing and Internet of Things. Have you ever thought of porting FreeDOS to ARM to take advantage of the new interest? Jim Hall: That question comes up a lot. Can we ...
It's true that you don't see much DOS in embedded systems being developed today. I think theRaspberry Piand other low-cost and low-power devices have made Linux in embedded devices very attractive, so most developer interest has moved there. But you still see FreeDOS sometimes, a testament...
and I'm proud of the work that we've done on it over the past quarter century. I'm also proud of how we built FreeDOS because it is a great example of how the open source software model works.
We've used Simple Senet to demonstrate how to set up an embedded system on FreeDOS. Depending on your needs, you can use whatever standalone application you like. Define it as the DOS shell using theSHELL=line inFDCONFIG.SYSand FreeDOS will automatically launch the application at boot-time...