--- title: Founder of FreeDOS recounts the story so far, and the future description: The last mainstream DOS-based OS was Windows ME, which went out of support 20 years ago. FreeDOS founder Jim Hall started what he at first called "PD-DOS" when... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/founder-of-freedos-recounts-the-story-so-far-and-the-future-d6imgdldy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Founder of FreeDOS recounts the story so far, and the future | daily.dev og:description: The last mainstream DOS-based OS was Windows ME, which went out of support 20 years ago. FreeDOS founder Jim Hall started what he at first called "PD-DOS" when... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/founder-of-freedos-recounts-the-story-so-far-and-the-future-d6imgdldy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/D6iMgDLDY.png og:image:alt: Founder of FreeDOS recounts the story so far, and the future og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Founder of FreeDOS recounts the story so far, and the future **[The Register](https://daily.dev/sources/theregister)** · 17 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The last mainstream DOS-based OS was Windows ME, which went out of support 20 years ago. FreeDOS founder Jim Hall started what he at first called "PD-DOS" when he was still a student, using Windows 3.1. Hall dual-booted his machine between DOS and Linux, and as Microsoft said DOS was going away. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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