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MS-DOS 7.1 adds FAT32 support [11] for larger than 2GB and up to 2TB per volume, [12] and MS-DOS 7.0 and earlier versions of MS-DOS only support FAT12 and FAT16. [13] Logical block addressing (LBA) is supported in MS-DOS 7 for accessing larger hard disks, unlike earlier versions which only supported cylinder-head-sector (CHS)-based addressing.
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.
DR-DOS 7.06, LBA/FAT32-enabled OEM version of DR-DOS; DR-DOS 7.07, LBA/FAT32-enabled OEM version of DR-DOS; It may also refer to versions of the Microsoft MS-DOS family: MS-DOS 7.0, LBA-enabled DOS component bundled with Windows 95 in 1995; MS-DOS 7.1, LBA/FAT32-enabled DOS component bundled with Windows 98/98 SE in 1998/1999; It may also refer ...
Logical block addressing (LBA) is a common scheme used for specifying the location of blocks of data stored on computer storage devices, generally secondary storage systems such as hard disk drives. LBA is a particularly simple linear addressing scheme; blocks are located by an integer index, with the first block being LBA 0, the second LBA 1 ...
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 ...
Disk Operating System/360, also DOS/360, or simply DOS, is the discontinued first member of a sequence of operating systems for IBM System/360, System/370 and later mainframes. It was announced by IBM on the last day of 1964, and it was first delivered in June 1966. [1] In its time, DOS/360 was the most widely used operating system in the world ...
As MS-DOS 7.0 was a part of Windows 95, support for it also ended when Windows 95 extended support ended on December 31, 2001. [84] As MS-DOS 7.10 and MS-DOS 8.0 were part of Windows 98 and Windows ME, respectively, support ended when Windows 98 and ME extended support ended on July 11, 2006, thus ending support and updates of MS-DOS from ...
This is the first MS-DOS version Microsoft offered in a shrink wrap packaged product for smaller OEMs or system builders. [264] Apricot Computers pre-announces MS-DOS 4.0, the first multitasking version. Apricot will sell MS-DOS 4.0 to European customers as the controlling program for network servers that support a new family of Apricot ...