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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...
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    DOS/360 from 1966. Others include Apple DOS, Apple ProDOS, Atari DOS, Commodore DOS, TRSDOS, and AmigaDOS. IBM PC DOS (and the separately sold MS-DOS)...
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    MS-DOS 7 is a real mode operating system for IBM PC compatibles. Unlike earlier versions of MS-DOS, it was not released separately by Microsoft, but included...
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  • MS-DOS Editor, commonly just called edit or edit.com, is a TUI text editor that comes with MS-DOS 5.0 and later, as well as all 32-bit x86 versions of...
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  • provided by MS-DOS compatible operating systems, especially as used on IBM PC compatibles. Many unrelated disk operating systems use the DOS acronym and...
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  • DOS Shell is a file manager that debuted in MS-DOS and PC DOS version 4.0, released in June 1988. It was no longer included in MS-DOS version 6, but remained...
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    MS-DOS 4.0 was a multitasking release of MS-DOS developed by Microsoft based on MS-DOS 2.0. Lack of interest from OEMs, particularly IBM (who previously...
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  • of MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS, and at least partially compatible disk operating systems. It does not include the many other operating systems called "DOS" which...
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  • The index of MS-DOS compatible video games is split into multiple pages because of its size. To navigate by individual letter use the table of contents...
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    compatible with IBM PC DOS and MS-DOS. Its first release was version 3.31, named so that it would match MS-DOS's then-current version. DR DOS 5.0 was released...
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    Debug (command) (redirect from MS-DOS DEBUG)
    the MS-DOS subsystem to maintain MS-DOS compatibility. The 16-bit DOS commands are not available on 64-bit editions of Windows. The MS-DOS/PC DOS DEBUG...
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  • script#Computer encoding). The first official Russification of MS-DOS was carried out for MS-DOS 4.01 in 1989/1990, released on 9 April 1990 (1990-04-09)....
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    licensed and then purchased by Microsoft and developed further as MS-DOS and PC DOS. 86-DOS was created because sales of the Seattle Computer Products 8086...
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  • The DOS API is an API which originated with 86-DOS and is used in MS-DOS/PC DOS and other DOS-compatible operating systems. Most calls to the DOS API...
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  • This is an index of DOS games. This list has been split into multiple pages. Please use the Table of Contents to browse it. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K...
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  • IO.SYS (redirect from I/O System (MS-DOS))
    essential part of MS-DOS and Windows 9x. It contains the default MS-DOS device drivers (hardware interfacing routines) and the DOS initialization program...
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  • 8-bit home computer standard MSX, and is a cross between MS-DOS v1.25 and CP/M-80 v2.2. MSX-DOS and the extended BASIC with 3½-inch floppy disk support...
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  • 1993]. Undocumented DOS: A programmer's guide to reserved MS-DOS functions and data structures - expanded to include MS-DOS 6, Novell DOS and Windows 3.1...
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  • which the acronym DOS is used to form their names. Many of these are simply referred to as "DOS" within their respective communities. MS-DOS (since 1981),...
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  • This is an index of notable DOS games. This list has been split into multiple pages. Please use the Table of Contents to browse it. 0–9 A B C D E F G...
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    FreeDOS (formerly PD-DOS) is a free software operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. It intends to provide a complete MS-DOS-compatible environment...
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  • Microsoft Windows (redirect from MS Windows)
    released on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs)...
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  • This is an index of DOS games. This list has been split into multiple pages. Please use the Table of Contents to browse it. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K...
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  • This is an index of DOS games. This list has been split into multiple pages. Please use the Table of Contents to browse it. 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K...
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    versions of DOS/V: Toshiba Nichi-Ei (日英; Japanese-English) MS-DOS 5.0 Compaq MS-DOS 5.0J/V (1992-04) MS-DOS 5.0/V (OEM, generic MS-DOS 5.0/V) MS-DOS 6.0/V[citation...
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    firmware interface, or have their CSMs disabled, cannot natively run MS-DOS since MS-DOS depends on a BIOS interface to boot. Only the Macintosh had kept...
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  • creating and editing text, spreadsheets, charts and other documents on the MS-DOS operating systems. It was released by Lotus Development as a follow-on to...
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    PC DOS and MS-DOS was DOS, which is also the generic term for disk operating system, and is shared with dozens of disk operating systems called DOS. The...
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    commercially available PTS-DOS as PTS-DOS v6.4. The version numbering followed MS-DOS version numbers, as Microsoft released MS-DOS 6.2 in November 1993. In...
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  • nested logical drives inside an extended partition came with DOS 3.30. Since MS-DOS, PC DOS, OS/2 and Windows were never enabled to boot off them, the MBR...
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