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1993


12/93(?) - Jim Hall installs SLS 1.03 distribution of Linux, using
    Kernel 0.99pl13.  This gets Jim thinking that free software is cool.
    (I know for sure it was SLS 1.03, pretty sure it was pl13, not
    sure it was exactly 12/93, but it was after I got back from Colorado.)


1994


6/94(?) - Microsoft announces that they will stop support for
    MS-DOS (note the impending release of Windows 95)

7/94 - the Free-DOS project is created by Jim Hall, a University of
    Wisconsin-River Falls physics student
7/94 - the Free-DOS Manifesto is written

8/94 - SunSITE hosts the Free-DOS web/ftp site

10/94 - The Free-DOS Manifesto is updated to specify compatibility
    with MS-DOS.

11/94(?) - Pat Villani contacts Jim about using DOS/NT as the
    FreeDOS Kernel.
11/94 - Tim Norman writes first version (0.01) of the FreeDOS
    command.com shell


1995


1/95 - Jim Hall graduates UW-RF, enters real life.
1/95(?) - FreeDOS Kernel is renamed DOS-C and put under the GNU GPL

2/95 - Hannibal Toal becomes new Free-DOS coordinator
2/95 - Free-DOS web site created by Hannibal Toal.  Site is later
    moved to http://www.freedos.org


1996


1/96(?) - The Free-DOS Project loses the dash, becomes "FreeDOS"

8/96 - FreeDOS command.com (later, FreeCOM) supports ALIAS

10/96 - R+D Books publishes THE FREEDOS KERNEL by Pat Villani. Also
    available at Amazon.com


1997


3/97 - DOS World Magazine features FreeDOS in article titled "DOS
    on the Internet".  This is our first big exposure in a magazine.

11/97 - FreeDOS Alpha5 is released.
11/97 - Jim Hall returns to the FreeDOS Project.
11/97 - First modern FreeDOS distribution, based on Alpha5.


1998


7/98 - FreeDOS Beta1 (Orlando) is released!
7/98 - Interface magazine (Japan) publishes a story about FreeDOS
    and embedded systems.  This is our first media exposure overseas.

8/98 - Future Tense (NPR Radio) airs an interview with Jim Hall
    about FreeDOS.  This is our first exposure in non-print media.

9/98 - FreeDOS Spec is posted (updated from FreeDOS Manifesto)

10/98 - FreeDOS Beta2 (Marvin) is released!

12/98 - John Price becomes new maintainer of the FreeDOS kernel.
    Developers now have CVS access to update the kernel.


1999


3/99 - kernel build 2005, the first important release after John
    Price becomes new kernel maintainer.  IPL.SYS is removed.

4/99 - FreeCOM is now available via CVS.
4/99 - FreeDOS Documentation Project (FD-DOC) is formed.

5/99 - FreeDOS Beta3 (Ventura) is released!

10/99 - The RxDOS code is opened up, moved to the FreeDOS web site.

12/99 - Gingging (a DOS distribution based on FreeDOS) is released.
12/99 - FreeDOS Beta4 (Lemur) is released!


2000


1/00 - Slashdot runs an interview with Jim Hall about the FreeDOS
    Project.  If you're a computer geek, you know how cool this is.

4/00 - FreeDOS Kernel now supports CD-ROM's.

8/00 - FreeDOS Beta5 (Lara) is released!

11/00 - Joe Cosentino leaves FreeDOS to join the United States Marine
    Corps.  "I will be back", he says.


2001


4/01 - FreeDOS Beta6 is released!

7/01 - FreeDOS Beta7 (Spears) is released!