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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 ]
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: PC DOS 7, successor of PC DOS 6.3 in 1995
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 .
In Europe, AT&T and Microsoft release MS-DOS 3.1, [L] which added a new local area network supplement Microsoft Networks 1.0 (identified earlier as MS-Net) [202] for use on non-IBM network cards. Microsoft Networks services are provided by a file server which is part of the Networks application and runs on a computer dedicated to the task. [ 24 ]
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 ...
The version included with MS-DOS 4 and PC DOS 4 is no longer a simple command-line utility, but a full-fledged installer. The command is available in MS-DOS versions 3.3 and 4 and IBM PC DOS releases 3 through 4. [1] This command is no longer included in DOS Version 5 and later, where it has been replaced by SETUP.
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 ...
The files IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS must be contiguous. [5] [6] However, MS-DOS version 3.3 allows sector 4 and higher to be fragmented; version 5.0 allows the first 3 sectors of IO.SYS to be allocated anywhere (as long as they are contiguous). [nb 1] [7] [5] [8] COMMAND.COM can be treated like any ordinary file.