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Though MS-DOS 7.0 and Windows 4.0 could be readily segregated and marketed as different products, Microsoft stopped marketing Windows and MS-DOS separately with the release of Windows 95. [15] A major difference from earlier versions of MS-DOS is the usage of the MSDOS.SYS file. [16] In MS-DOS 7, this is not a binary file, but a
MS-DOS 7.0, LBA-enabled DOS component bundled with Windows 95 in 1995; MS-DOS 7.1, LBA/FAT32-enabled DOS component bundled with Windows 98/98 SE in 1998/1999; It may also refer to versions of the IBM PC DOS family: PC DOS 7, successor of PC DOS 6.3 in 1995; PC DOS 2000, successor of PC DOS 7.0 in 1998; PC DOS 7.10, LBA/FAT32-enabled OEM version ...
As MS-DOS 7.0 was a part of Windows 95, support for it also ended when Windows 95 extended support ended on December 31, 2001. [84] As MS-DOS 7.10 and MS-DOS 8.0 were part of Windows 98 and Windows ME, respectively, support ended when Windows 98 and ME extended support ended on July 11, 2006, thus ending support and updates of MS-DOS from ...
OS/2 allows for 'DOS from Drive A:', (VMDISK). This is a real DOS, like MS-DOS 6.22 or PC DOS 5.00. One makes a bootable floppy disk of the DOS, adds a number of drivers from OS/2, and then creates a special image. The DOS booted this way has full access to the system, but provides its own drivers for hardware.
MS-DOS 3.0: 1984 MS-DOS 3.1; MS-DOS 3.2: 1986 MS-DOS 3.3: 1987 MS-DOS 4.0: 1988 Open source, MIT License [2] MS-DOS 5.0: 1991 Proprietary: MS-DOS 6.0: 1993 MS-DOS 6.20; MS-DOS 6.21: March 1994 [3] MS-DOS 6.22: April 1994 [3] MS-DOS 7.0 (Windows 95A) 1995 MS-DOS 7.10 (Windows 95 OSRs 2 and 2.5, 98, 98 SE) 1996 MS-DOS 8.0 (Windows Me and later ...
This is the first MS-DOS version Microsoft offered in a shrink wrap packaged product for smaller OEMs or system builders. [264] Apricot Computers pre-announces MS-DOS 4.0, the first multitasking version. Apricot will sell MS-DOS 4.0 to European customers as the controlling program for network servers that support a new family of Apricot ...
MSDOS.SYS is a system file in MS-DOS and Windows 9x operating systems. In versions of MS-DOS from 1.1x through 6.22, the file comprises the MS-DOS kernel and is responsible for file access and program management. MSDOS.SYS is loaded by the DOS BIOS IO.SYS as part of the boot procedure. [1] In some OEM versions of MS-DOS, the file is named MSDOS ...
EDIT is a full-screen text editor, included with MS-DOS versions 5 and 6, [1] OS/2 and Windows NT to 4.0 The corresponding program in Windows 95 and later, and Windows 2000 and later is Edit v2.0. PC DOS 6 and later use the DOS E Editor and DR-DOS used editor up to version 7.