An interview with FreeDOS founder Jim Hall.

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Jim Hall is best known as the computer programmer who founded the FreeDOS project. Jim created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft ending support for MS-DOS in 1994. Jim Hall: Even a beginner can get started writing an operating system like FreeDOS. He says you can write a lot of those programs even with a basic level of programming experience.

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