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The version included with PC DOS 3.0 and 3.1 is hard-coded to transfer the operating system from A: to B:, while from PC DOS 3.2 onward you can specify the source and destination, and can be used to install DOS to the harddisk. 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 category DOS commands deals with articles related to internal and external commands supported by members of the family of DOS compatible operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers, such as MS-DOS, PC DOS, DR DOS, Concurrent DOS, Multiuser DOS, REAL/32, FlexOS, Novell DOS, PalmDOS, OpenDOS, FreeDOS, RxDOS, ROM-DOS, Embedded DOS, etc.
MS-DOS / PC DOS and some related disk operating systems use the files mentioned here. System Files: [1] IO.SYS (or IBMBIO.COM): This contains the system initialization code and builtin device drivers; MSDOS.SYS (or IBMDOS.COM): This contains the DOS kernel. Command-line interpreter (Shell): COMMAND.COM: This is the command interpreter.
COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me.In the case of DOS, it is the default user interface as well. [2] It has an additional role as the usual first program run after boot (init process), hence being responsible for setting up the system by running the AUTOEXEC.BAT configuration file, and being the ancestor of all processes.
MS-DOS (/ ˌ ɛ m ˌ ɛ s ˈ d ɒ s / em-es-DOSS; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.
Side-by-side, CP/M cost US$200 more than PC DOS, and sales were low. CP/M faded, with MS-DOS and PC DOS becoming the marketed operating system for PCs and PC compatibles. [4] Microsoft originally sold MS-DOS only to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). One major reason for this was that not all early PCs were 100% IBM PC compatible.
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.
On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later. [21] DR DOS 6.0 also includes an implementation of the TYPE command. [22] It is also available in the open source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox and the EFI shell. [23] In Windows PowerShell, type is a predefined command alias for the Get-Content Cmdlet which basically serves the same purpose.