Jim Hall began work on a free software replacement for the MS-DOS operating system in 1994 when he was still a physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. He remains active with FreeDOS, and is currently the coordinator for the Project.
Hall has said he created FreeDOS in response to Microsoft announcing end of support for MS-DOS in 1994. As a user and fan of MS-DOS, Hall did not want the functionality of DOS to go away, and he did not want to use Microsoft Windows (then at version 3.11 - about a year before Windows 95 was released.) Prompted by a thread/thread/49220e4f1514e131/d805f257cd2c1391?lnk=st&q=&rnum=42#d805f257cd2c1391" target="_blank">March 31, 1994 post on comp.os.msdos.misc asking if "anyone, for example GNU et al ever considered writing a Public Domain DOS", Hall decided to garner support for a free version of DOS, written under a free or public domain model. In a June 29, 1994 post, Hall announced an effort to create a free DOS, called PD-DOS, writing:
Within a few weeks, other programmers including Pat Villani and Tim Norman joined the project. A kernel, the command.com command line interpreter (shell) and core utilities were created by pooling code they had written or found available. Hall wrote over a dozen of the first DOS utilities for the project, mostly file and batch utilities. In a July 26, 1994 post, Hall announced the PD-DOS project had been renamed to "Free-DOS", having updated the project's goals to intend to distribute source code under the _GNU General Public License. (The project would later be renamed "FreeDOS" – without the dash – after the publication of FreeDOS Kernel, by Pat Villani.)
Hall was the project's release coordinator from Beta1 until about Beta7, and also released the first alpha distribution of Free-DOS, as announced in a September 17, 1994 post to comp.os.msdos.misc.
Hall is also the original developer of GNU Robots, but he is no longer active on this project and has since handed maintainership over to Tim Northover.
James Stanley Hall (born December 4, 1930, Buffalo, New York) is an American jazz guitarist.
Jim Hall (born July 23,1935 in Abilene, Texas ) is a former racecar driver and constructor from the United States. He competed in Formula One from to , participating in 12 World Championship Grands Prix and numerous non-Championship races.
His place in motorsport history came as the owner and driving force of Chaparral Cars of Midland, Texas. During the 1960s in the United States Road Racing Championship, and later in the CanAm, his Chaparral cars were the most innovative cars in racing. He was a very early adopter of aerodynamics applied to race cars and was leading proponent of that technology for an entire decade. He had a sabbatical in the early 1970s, racing in several NASCAR Grand American division pony car races. Hall came back to prominence in the Championship Auto Racing Teams series, including two wins in the Indianapolis 500 in 1978 and 1980; the latter with the first of the ground effect cars to be raced in the event. He would later turn to using off-the-shelf racecars to race in his Indycar team which was renamed Jim Hall Racing until 1996, when he retired from racing altogether. He now resides in Palm Springs Ca. and Midland Texas , is active in the oil and gas business and motorsports racing legacies. The saga of Jim Hall and Chaparral Cars is documented at the Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas. http://www.petroleummuseum.org/Chaparral/Chaparralhome.html His son, Jim Hall, Jr., resides in California and operates the Jim Hall Kart Racing School.
Montague James Furlong (July 22 1868 - March 14 1913), commonly known as Jim Hall, was an Australian middleweight boxer. He won the Australian middleweight title in 1887 before moving to the United States in an attempt to capture the World title from Jack (Nonpareil) Dempsey. Described as "one of the best little fighters that ever lived" in The Milwaukee Journal, Hall's career was affected by alcoholism, and he died of tuberculosis in 1913.
Jim Hall is the public address announcer for New York Giants football games at Giants Stadium, located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex, East Rutherford, New Jersey. blank">http://www.sportsfeatures.com/index.php?section=pp&action=show&id=32484
After serving as the backup to longtime legendary Yankee Stadium PA announcer _Bob Sheppard since the opening of Giants Stadium, Hall was awarded the Giants Stadium position beginning with the 2006 season following Sheppard's retirement from the role.
Hall continues to serve as Sheppard's backup at Yankee Stadium. He has done so for nearly forty years. He most recently appeared in September 2007 when Sheppard could not appear due to laryngitis. This was Sheppard's first absence since the beginning of the 2006 season when he missed the Yankees' opening series due to a hip injury.
Like Sheppard, Hall was a tenured professor at St. John's University for forty-five years, before retiring in 2004.
It is also of note that his voice is quite similar to Bob Sheppard's.
