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  2. MS-DOS 7 - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 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.

  4. DOS 7 - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Partition type - Wikipedia

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    The partition type (or partition ID) in a partition's entry in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access these partitions (e.g. special CHS mappings, LBA access, logical mapped geometries, special driver access, hidden partitions, secured or encrypted file ...

  6. DOS/360 and successors - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. MS-DOS - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Timeline of DOS operating systems - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. INT 13H - Wikipedia

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    All versions of MS-DOS, (including MS-DOS 7 and Windows 95) have a bug which prevents booting disk drives with 256 heads (register value 0xFF), so many modern BIOSes provide CHS translation mappings with at most 255 (0xFE) heads, [1] [2] thus reducing the total addressable space to exactly 8032.5 MiB (approx 7.844 GiB).