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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... DOS 6 or DOS-6 may refer to: In computing: DR DOS 6.0 by Novell; MS-DOS 6.x ...
Each computer would have its own distinct hardware and its own version of MS-DOS, a situation similar to the one that existed for CP/M, with MS-DOS emulating the same solution as CP/M to adapt for different hardware platforms. So there were many different original equipment manufacturer (OEM) versions of MS-DOS for different hardware. But the ...
Commodore DOS, for Commodore's 8-bit computers; Cromemco DOS (CDOS), a CP/M-like operating system; CSI-DOS, for the Soviet Elektronika BK computers; DOS (Diskette Operating System), a small OS for 16-bit Data General Nova computers, a cut-down version of their RDOS. DEC BATCH-11/DOS-11, the first operating system to run on the PDP-11 minicomputer
Its first release was version 3.31, named so that it would match MS-DOS's then-current version. [2] DR DOS 5.0 was released in 1990 as the first to be sold in retail; it was critically acclaimed [3] and led to DR DOS becoming the main rival to Microsoft's MS-DOS, [4] who quickly responded with its own MS-DOS 5.0 but releasing over a year later. [5]
In all 32-bit (IA-32) editions of the Windows NT family since 1993, DOS emulation is provided by way of a virtual DOS machine (NTVDM). 64-bit (IA-64 and x86-64) versions of Windows do not support NTVDM and cannot run 16-bit DOS applications directly; third-party emulators such as DOSbox can be used to run DOS programs on those machines.
This version is the version of MS-DOS that is discussed here, as the dozens of other OEM versions of "MS-DOS" were only relevant to the systems they were designed for, and in any case were very similar in function and capability to some standard version for the IBM PC—often the same-numbered version, but not always, since some OEMs used their ...
Digital Research said that after it introduced its DR DOS version 5.0 in April 1990, Microsoft immediately announced a version of MS-DOS, with "amazing similarity," which has yet to appear. [402] Phar Lap introduces 386|DOS-Extender software development kit (SDK) version 3.0, which supports XMS and both the Real and Standard modes of Windows 3. ...
Visual Basic 3.0 was released in the summer of 1993 and came in Standard and Professional versions. VB3 included version 1.1 of the Jet Database Engine that could read and write Jet (or Access) 1.x databases. Visual Basic 4.0 (August 1995) was the first version that could create 32-bit as well as 16-bit Windows programs. It has three editions ...