X00

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X00 was a popular DOS-based FOSSIL driver{{cite web |url=http://www.dcllabs.net/docs/x00ref.txt |title=Functions reference manual for the X00 developer |author=Raymond L. Gwinn |publisher=DCL Labs |date=1990-07-15 |access-date=15 December 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120301175839/http://www.dcllabs.net/docs/x00ref.txt |archive-date= 1 March 2012}} which was commonly used in the mid-1980s to the late 1990s and is even still used today. FOSSIL drivers were mainly used to run BBS software under MS-DOS. X00 can also be run under Windows, or even Linux and DOSEMU environments, to allow FOSSIL-aware MS-DOS based applications to function.

X00 was developed by Raymond L. Gwinn from 1989 until 1993. The final release version was version 1.50, with a later beta version 1.53 which added support for baud rates above 38400. X00 is free for non-commercial usage.{{Citation needed|date=December 2009}} X00 included many enhancements to the [http://ftsc.org/ FTSC] FOSSIL revision 5 specifications, which were later used in other FOSSIL drivers such as ADF and NetFoss.

Gwinn moved on to develop a replacement serial port driver for OS/2 called SIO. SIO contained a virtualized FOSSIL (VX00) that could be loaded if applications needed FOSSIL support.