There is a freeware program DRDOS by Digital Research ,availiable from Caldera
who
presently own it It was considered good enough to put the fear of  market loss
into
M$ oft. It is now the subject of a billion $court action;{fascinating reading}.

Jim Meagher wrote:

> Stephen,
>
> Some PCs from that era were deliberately designed to be proprietary, but DOS
> 6.2 should work just fine on a 286 PC.
>
> DOS (and all it's variations like IBMDOS, TandyDOS, etc) were never freeware
> or shareware.
>
> There is(was?) a shareware O/S called 4DOS.  IF it is still available, you
> should be able to find it at any of the major shareware sites, like Tucows,
> or shareware.com.
>
> Jim Meagher
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen SL. Lo <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Can DOS6.2 run in an old 286 PC? If NOT where could i found and
> > download old version sof MSDOS, say DOS4.0 or DOS5.0.
> >
>
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