How FreeDOS Grew Up and Became a Modern DOS (2021)
What's interesting is that it seems to still be much less performant on <i>very small</i> systems than "commercial DOS".<p>I have a kit-built machine with an 8MHz 8088-class CPU, and FreeDOS is much slower to boot than PC DOS 2000 (the final mainstream MS/PC DOS release).  When I used it years ago on 486-class machines (distraction0-free laptops) the gap didn't seem so wide.<p>Pity DR-DOS seems to have disappeared into the ether.  It was a competent choice to, and I know there was a point where you could get a source distribution for embedded purposes, so you'd expect that the next logical step would have been crowdfunding a source buyout.