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2. DOSBox - Wikipedia

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   Type. Virtual machine, emulator. License. GPL-2.0-or-later [4] Website. www.dosbox.com. DOSBox is a free and open-source emulator which runs software for MS-DOS compatible disk operating systems—primarily video games. [5] It was first released in 2002, when DOS technology was becoming obsolete.

3. FreeDOS - Wikipedia

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   GNU GPL [2] with various different licenses for utilities. Official website. freedos.org. FreeDOS (formerly Free-DOS and PD-DOS) is a free software operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. It intends to provide a complete MS-DOS -compatible environment for running legacy software and supporting embedded systems.

4. MS-DOS - Wikipedia

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   MS-DOS (/ ˌɛmˌɛsˈdɒs / 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. Collectively, MS-DOS, its rebranding as IBM PC DOS, and a few operating systems attempting to be compatible with MS-DOS, are sometimes referred ...

5. Windows XP - Wikipedia

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   Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft 's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct successor to Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users. Development of Windows XP began in the late 1990s under the codename ...

6. Comparison of DOS operating systems - Wikipedia

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   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. Each computer would have its own distinct hardware and its own version of MS-DOS, a situation similar to the one that ...

7. Timeline of DOS operating systems - Wikipedia

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   Timeline of DOS operating systems. This article presents a timeline of events in the history of 16-bit x86 DOS -family disk operating systems from 1980 to present. Non-x86 operating systems named "DOS" are not part of the scope of this timeline. Also presented is a timeline of events in the history of the 8-bit 8080 -based and 16-bit x86-based ...