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MS-DOS progressed as the base operating system of Windows 3.1x and Windows 9x. Windows 95 is on MS-DOS 7.0, and Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 are on MS-DOS 7.1. [18] By default, MS-DOS 7.0 is installed with Windows 95 to the C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND subdirectory, and is loaded prior to the loading of the GUI system.
Originally MS-DOS was designed to be an operating system that could run on any computer with a 8086-family microprocessor.It competed with other operating systems written for such computers, such as CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal.
DR-DOS 7.07, LBA/FAT32-enabled OEM version of DR-DOS; It may also refer to versions of the Microsoft MS-DOS family: 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:
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. [86] 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 ...
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 ...
86-DOS (a.k.a. QDOS, created 1980), an operating system developed by Seattle Computer Products for its 8086-based S-100 computer kit, heavily inspired by CP/M; Concurrent DOS (a.k.a. CDOS, Concurrent PC DOS and CPCDOS) (since 1983), a CP/M-86 and MS-DOS 2.11 compatible multiuser, multitasking DOS, based on Concurrent CP/M-86 developed by Digital Research
MS-DOS (developed jointly with IBM, versions 1.0–6.22) Z-DOS; MS-Net; MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking) MS-DOS 7; MSX-DOS (developed by MS Japan for the MSX 8-bit computer) DOS/V; OS/2 1.x (developed jointly with IBM until version 1.3) LAN Manager; Windows (16-bit and 32-bit preemptive and cooperative multitasking, running atop MS-DOS) Windows 1.0 ...