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Virtual DOS machines can operate either exclusively through typical software emulation methods (e.g. dynamic recompilation) or can rely on the virtual 8086 mode of the Intel 80386 processor, which allows real mode 8086 software to run in a controlled environment by catching all operations which involve accessing protected hardware and forwarding them to the normal operating system (as exceptions).
Multiuser DOS is a real-time multi-user multi-tasking operating system for IBM PC-compatible microcomputers.. An evolution of the older Concurrent CP/M-86, Concurrent DOS and Concurrent DOS 386 operating systems, it was originally developed by Digital Research and acquired and further developed by Novell in 1991.
There are basically three revisions of the DPMS specification, DPMS beta, [9] [10] DPMS 1.0 (original Novell DOS 7 shipment) [1] and DPMS 1.1 (since March 1994 update). [11] The 1.0 specification continued to support the beta specification as well, whereas the 1.1 (and higher) implementation does not. [11]
286|DOS-Extender is compatible with XMS, VCPI and DPMI in Windows 3.0. [300] [433] 1991: June: On June 11, IBM DOS 5.0 is released. It featured the moving of the DOS kernel and command.com into the high memory area. [434]
Many 16-bit Windows legacy programs can run without changes on newer 32-bit editions of Windows. The reason designers made this possible was to allow software developers time to remedy their software during the industry transition from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 and later, without restricting the ability for the operating system to be upgraded to a current version before all programs used by a ...
Phar Lap Software, Inc., was a software company specializing in software development tools for DOS operating systems. The company was named after the champion New Zealand racehorse Phar Lap . They were most noted for their software allowing developers to access memory beyond the 640 KiB limit of DOS ( DOS extenders ) and were an author of the ...
VM/386 is a multitasking Multi-user environment or 'control program' [1] that took early advantage of the capabilities of Intel's 386 processor. By utilizing Virtual 8086 mode, users were able to run their existing text-based and graphical DOS software in safely separate environments.
DR-DOS 7.07 (with BDOS 7.4/7.7) by Paul introduced new bootstrap loaders and updated disk tools in order to combine support for CHS and LBA disk access, the FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32 file systems, and the differing bootstrapping conventions of DR-DOS, PC DOS, MS-DOS, Windows, REAL/32 and LOADER into a single NEWLDR MBR and boot sector, so that the ...