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Earlier versions of 4OS2 can be run under Windows NT, and OS/2 can run the two DOS and Windows NT shells, all three can be used on Windows NT-type machines and OS/2 multiple boot machines. Among the many commands, statements and functions in 4DOS and lacking in DOS/Windows 95–98 COMMAND.COM are reading keyboard input and a simpler method of ...
EDIT is a full-screen text editor, included with MS-DOS versions 5 and 6, [1] OS/2 and Windows NT to 4.0 The corresponding program in Windows 95 and later, and Windows 2000 and later is Edit v2.0. PC DOS 6 and later use the DOS E Editor and DR-DOS used editor up to version 7.
[7] [8] MS-DOS continued to receive support until the end of 2001, [9] and all support for any DOS-based Windows operating system ended on July 11, 2006. [10] The development of DOSBox began around the launch of Windows 2000—a Windows NT system [11] —when its creators, [12] Dutch programmers Peter Veenstra and Sjoerd van der Berg ...
In Windows 3.1 and Windows 9x, there is also a command-line loadable version of HIMEM.SYS called XMSMMGR.EXE. It can load extended memory services after the system boots into the command prompt. It can load extended memory services after the system boots into the command prompt.
Windows 3.1 had an option in its 386 Enhanced Control Panel that would enable 32-bit read & write access in 386 enhanced mode. Usually, 32-bit read could be safely enabled, but 32-bit write had issues with a number of applications. 32-bit Disk Access was the feature that made it possible to page MS-DOS applications to disk.
PCPaint 3.1 is still in use today by some users of DOS emulation programs like DOSBox [3] and available for free download. [4] Pictor Paint was an improved version, written by John Bridges, and bundled with GRASP GRaphical System for Presentation also written by John Bridges. It was also called "The Painter's Easel".
The original DOS API in 86-DOS and MS-DOS 1.0 was designed to be functionally compatible with CP/M.Files were accessed using file control blocks (FCBs). The DOS API was greatly extended in MS-DOS 2.0 with several Unix concepts, including file access using file handles, hierarchical directories and device I/O control. [1]
PC Paintbrush was a graphics editing software created by the ZSoft Corporation in 1984 for computers running the MS-DOS operating system.. Published alongside Microsoft Mouse DOS drivers version 4 from 1985 as a direct response to Mouse Systems bundling PCPaint with its mice, millions of copies were sold, and the program itself ended up licensed and used inside Windows 1.0, as Microsoft Paint ...