As part of the FreeDOS Summer Coding Blog Challenge, Bruce Axtens writes on his blog about the history of the FAST and SOFA compilers for FreeDOS.
If you don't know about FAST and SOFA, FAST is loosely based on Basic, Pascal, C and Assembler. The programs produced by FAST are very small and very fast. SOFA is an 8088 (and semi-80386) assembler, with syntax based somewhat on A86 and CHASM.
Both FAST and SOFA were created by Peter Campbell, who passed away in 2007. FAST and SOFA have since been released under the GNU GPL.
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About Me
- Jim Hall
- I'm Jim Hall, the founder and Project Coordinator for the FreeDOS Project. I started FreeDOS in 1994, when I was an undergraduate physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Other developers got in touch with me, and we began work creating our own version of DOS that would be compatible with MS-DOS. I shared the extended DOS utilities that I had written for myself, as did others. We also found public domain or open source programs that replaced other DOS commands. A few months later, we released our first FreeDOS “Alpha” distribution. And from there, FreeDOS grew into what you see today!
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