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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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    COMMAND.COM is the default command-line interpreter for MS-DOS, Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows Me. In the case of DOS, it is the default user interface...
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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 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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  • commands used 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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    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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    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 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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    Debug (command) (redirect from MS-DOS DEBUG)
    included in MS-DOS/PC DOS and certain versions of Microsoft Windows. Originally named DEBUG.COM, the executable was renamed into DEBUG.EXE with MS-DOS 3.2. Windows...
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    FreeDOS (formerly Free-DOS and PD-DOS) is a free software operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. It intends to provide a complete MS-DOS-compatible...
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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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  • leading developers of MS-DOS. The MZ DOS executable file is newer than the COM executable format and differs from it. The DOS executable header contains...
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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 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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    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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    CHKDSK (redirect from CHKDSK (DOS command))
    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.x use chkdsk.com as...
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    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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  • Abraxas (computer virus) (category DOS file viruses)
    within the viral code in all Abraxas infected programs: "*.exe c:\dos\dosshell.com .. MS-DOS (c)1992" "->>ABRAXAS-5<<--" "...For he is not of this day" "....
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  • Edlin (redirect from EDLIN.COM)
    with early versions of IBM PC DOS, MS-DOS and OS/2. Although superseded in MS-DOS 5.0 and later by the full-screen MS-DOS Editor, and by Notepad in Microsoft...
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    the first DOS that attempted to be compatible with IBM PC DOS and MS-DOS (which were the same product sold under different names). DR-DOS was developed...
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  • of the Russian MS-DOS 5.0 drivers used for keyboard, display and printer localization support (DISPLAY.SYS, EGS.CPI, EGA2.CPI, KEYB.COM, KEYBOARD.SYS,...
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    Subroutines for MS-DOS (2 ed.). Windcrest Books. p. 16. ISBN 0-8306-7649-X. "Windows Commands". Microsoft. 2023-04-26. COM 101 – a DOS executable walkthrough...
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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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  • 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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    the file IO.SYS in MS-DOS, or DRBIOS.SYS in DR DOS 3.31 to 3.41. (For compatibility purposes with some DOS applications the IBMBIO.COM file name was briefly...
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    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 the...
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  • 1988 following the success of Earl Weaver Baseball. It was later ported to MS-DOS and the Commodore 64. It was followed by the 1990 Sega Genesis video game...
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    Fdisk (redirect from FDISK (DOS command))
    fdisk to MS-DOS in version 3.2. MS-DOS versions 2.0 through 3.10 included OEM-specific partitioning tools, which may have been named fdisk. PC DOS 3.0, released...
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    The MS-DOS 5.0 project started in December 1989. Codenamed "Lifeboat", it is based on MS-DOS 4.00 code. It was the first version of MS-DOS to use beta...
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  • – via bytepointer.com. Virtual DOS Machine Structure Troubleshooting MS-DOS-based programs in Windows XP Troubleshooting an MS-DOS application which hangs...
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