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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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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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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commands provided by the MS-DOS disk operating system (DOS), especially as used on an IBM PC compatible computer. Other DOS variants as well as the legacy...
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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Windows 9x (redirect from MS Windows 9x)
modified in succeeding versions, with its underlying foundation based on MS-DOS. The first version in the 9x series was Windows 95, which was succeeded...
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Windows 95 (redirect from MS Windows 95)
retail on August 24, 1995. Windows 95 merged Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows products into a single product and featured significant...
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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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Master boot record (redirect from MS-DOS partition table)
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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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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Configuration file (section MS-DOS)
of MS-DOS. An example CONFIG.SYS: DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS FILES=30 SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND...
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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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