Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «My parents wanted to expose my brother and me to computers from an early age, so they bought an Apple II clone called the Franklin Ace 1000. I'm sure the first thing we used it for was playing games. But it didn't take long before we asked, "How does it work?" Our parents bought us a book about how to program in Applesoft BASIC, and we taught ourselves.»
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «I learned the C programming language and picked up a C compiler. I wrote lots of utilities to help me analyze lab data or add new features to the MS-DOS command line.»
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «I thought Linux was neat and I used it a lot, but still spent most of my time in MS-DOS. Because let's face it: In 1993, there were a lot more applications and games on MS-DOS than on Linux.»
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «I looked at Windows 3.1 and said, "If Windows 3.2 or Windows 4.0 will be anything like Windows 3.1, I want nothing to do with it."».
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «When I started the project, I didn't fully understand the nuances between "free software" and "public domain." I assumed they were the same. And certainly, many of the free tools we found on FTP sites were released into the public domain. I adopted the name PD-DOS for Public Domain DOS. It took only a few weeks before I realized we wanted the protection of the GNU General Public License, which would make our DOS project a "free software" project. By late July, we changed the name to Free-DOS. Later, we dropped the hyphen to become FreeDOS.»
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «At least in the US, Dell and HP also have FreeDOS as a pre-installed OS option. I think it's great to see FreeDOS used in this way. :-)».
Ojeda-Zapata, Julio (1 de julio de 2014). «FreeDOS operating system is 20»(html). TwinCities.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 3 de abril de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «Hall also has been sitting on a big secret. FreeDOS has long had a cute cartoon mascot in the form of a fish. This is much like the Linux operating system’s mascot, Tux the penguin. The fish’s name, however, has never been revealed. Now it can be told: It’s Blinky.»
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«FreeDOS». wiki.freedos.org. Archivado desde el original el 25 de junio de 2023. Consultado el 20 de julio de 2020.
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «My parents wanted to expose my brother and me to computers from an early age, so they bought an Apple II clone called the Franklin Ace 1000. I'm sure the first thing we used it for was playing games. But it didn't take long before we asked, "How does it work?" Our parents bought us a book about how to program in Applesoft BASIC, and we taught ourselves.»
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «I learned the C programming language and picked up a C compiler. I wrote lots of utilities to help me analyze lab data or add new features to the MS-DOS command line.»
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «I thought Linux was neat and I used it a lot, but still spent most of my time in MS-DOS. Because let's face it: In 1993, there were a lot more applications and games on MS-DOS than on Linux.»
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «I looked at Windows 3.1 and said, "If Windows 3.2 or Windows 4.0 will be anything like Windows 3.1, I want nothing to do with it."».
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «When I started the project, I didn't fully understand the nuances between "free software" and "public domain." I assumed they were the same. And certainly, many of the free tools we found on FTP sites were released into the public domain. I adopted the name PD-DOS for Public Domain DOS. It took only a few weeks before I realized we wanted the protection of the GNU General Public License, which would make our DOS project a "free software" project. By late July, we changed the name to Free-DOS. Later, we dropped the hyphen to become FreeDOS.»
Hall, Jim (17 de octubre de 2017). «The origin and evolution of FreeDOS»(html). Opensource.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 6 de marzo de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «At least in the US, Dell and HP also have FreeDOS as a pre-installed OS option. I think it's great to see FreeDOS used in this way. :-)».
Ojeda-Zapata, Julio (1 de julio de 2014). «FreeDOS operating system is 20»(html). TwinCities.com(en inglés). Archivado desde el original el 3 de abril de 2018. Consultado el 3 de abril de 2018. «Hall also has been sitting on a big secret. FreeDOS has long had a cute cartoon mascot in the form of a fish. This is much like the Linux operating system’s mascot, Tux the penguin. The fish’s name, however, has never been revealed. Now it can be told: It’s Blinky.»
