86-DOS (known internally as QDOS, for Quick and Dirty Operating System) is a discontinued operating system developed and marketed by Seattle Computer Products...
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system compatible with CP/M-86, MP/M-86, which later evolved into Concurrent CP/M-86. When an emulator was added to provide PC DOS compatibility, the system...
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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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ran as a GUI. MS-DOS was a renamed form of 86-DOS – owned by Seattle Computer Products, written by Tim Paterson. Development of 86-DOS took only six weeks...
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PC DOS 6.0, which was an advanced successor of CP/M-86. As ownership changed, various later versions were produced with names including Novell DOS and...
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personal computer with "a CP/M-like DOS ... to be called, simply, 'IBM Personal Computer DOS'". 86-DOS was rebranded IBM PC DOS 1.0 for its August 1981 release...
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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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Multiuser DOS is a real-time multi-user multi-tasking operating system for IBM PC-compatible microcomputers. An evolution of the older Concurrent CP/M-86, Concurrent...
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Source-to-source compiler (redirect from CONVERT 86)
Once 86-DOS was running, Paterson, in a self-hosting-inspired approach, utilized TRANS86 to convert itself into a program running under 86-DOS. Numbered...
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Tim Paterson (redirect from Father of DOS)
June 1956) is an American computer programmer, best known for creating 86-DOS, an operating system for the Intel 8086. This system emulated the application...
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Debug (command) (redirect from 86-DOS DEBUG)
this purpose in 86-DOS. When Paterson began working for Microsoft in the early 1980s he brought the program with him. DEBUG was part of DOS 1.00 and has...
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by FreeDOS alpha 0.05 in 1998 (FreeDOS project was announced in 1994) 8-bit CP/M : First licensed release 1.3 1.4 2.0 3.0 1980 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88...
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File Allocation Table (redirect from DOS filesystem)
previous limit of 16 MB. 86-DOS 1.00 became available in early 1981. Later in 1981, 86-DOS evolved into Microsoft's MS-DOS and IBM PC DOS. The capability to...
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Dir (command) (redirect from Dir (MS-DOS Command))
SCP 86-DOS. On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later. It is also available in the open source MS-DOS emulator DOSBox. MS-DOS prompts...
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86-DOS for x86-based personal computers IBM PC DOS (since 1981), rebranded OEM version of MS-DOS sold by IBM. Identical or almost identical to MS-DOS...
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computers, such as CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal. Each computer would have its own distinct hardware and its own version of MS-DOS, a situation similar to the...
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to sell 86-DOS (including updated versions) with its computer hardware. Realizing that Microsoft was making significant profit on the 86-DOS operating...
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CHKDSK (redirect from CHKDSK (DOS command))
Computer Products 86-DOS. The command is available in MS-DOS versions 1 and later. CHKDSK is implemented as an external command. MS-DOS versions 2.x - 4...
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Edlin (category DOS text editors)
Products's 86-DOS (QDOS) based on the CP/M context editor ED, itself distantly inspired by the Unix ed line editor. Microsoft acquired 86-DOS and, after...
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came with PC DOS, an OEM version of MS-DOS, which was developed from 86-DOS, which Microsoft had acquired for this purpose. By mid-1982, MS-DOS was also marketed...
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Format (command) (redirect from FORMAT (DOS command))
formatting. It is a component of various operating systems, including 86-DOS, MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS and OS/2, Microsoft Windows and ReactOS. The command performs...
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DOS 1 or DOS-1 may refer to: The Soviet space station Salyut 1, also called DOS-1 It may also refer to versions of Seattle Computer Product's 86-DOS (the...
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1985. DOS Plus 1.0 was based on CP/M-86 Plus combined with the PCMODE emulator from Concurrent PC DOS 4.11. While CP/M-86 Plus and Concurrent DOS 4.1 still...
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Design of the FAT file system (redirect from DOS BPB)
high-density formats. Also, the various 8-inch formats supported by 86-DOS and MS-DOS do not fit this scheme. Microsoft recommends to distinguish between...
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UFC Fight Night: Rothwell vs. dos Santos (also known as UFC Fight Night 86) was a mixed martial arts event held on April 10, 2016, at the Arena Zagreb...
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Allen called Tim Paterson, original author of 86-DOS and MS-DOS 1.x, asking him to do a "Z80 version of MS-DOS" for the MSX standard. At the time, Paterson...
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A20 line (redirect from CALL 5 (DOS))
the DOS=HIGH or HIDOS=ON directives in the CONFIG.SYS configuration file. Since 1980, the address wrap was internally used by 86-DOS and MS-DOS to implement...
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command is supported by Tim Paterson's SCP 86-DOS. On MS-DOS, the command is available in versions 1 and later. DR DOS 6.0 also includes an implementation of...
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to: DOS BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), a low-level component in DOS operating systems, including PC DOS and DR-DOS I/O System (86-DOS), the DOS-BIOS...
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