![]() ![]() Product type OS Vendor Microsoft Release date 1981 Minimum CPU Intel 8088 4.77MHz Minimum RAM 32KB Minimum free disk space 160KB User interface GUI Platform DOS Download count 1022 (31 for release) Downloads Download name Wanted: Eagle 1600 MS-DOS 1.25 with hard disk diag disk. Please see the documentation included with each for specifics. Those that are compatible with the IBM PC (Such as the Columbia Data Products OEM) can be mounted and booted in an emulator such as MESS or PCE. ![]() WinImage can not handle the file system on most DOS 1.x disks. Most of these images need to be written with ImageDisk, or some other DOS based disk writer. Some require special disk formats or drive hardware, such as 8" floppy drives. Others may boot on an IBM PC, but certain devices or tools may not operate. Important: Many of these OEM versions will only run on the specific computers they were designed for. All of the versions here are believed to be based off of MS-DOS 1.25, even if the vendor called it something else. Some vendors labeled their versions of MS-DOS with different names and version numbers. MS-DOS 1.25, the equivalent of PC-DOS 1.10, was the first version licensed to OEMs beyond IBM or Seattle Computer Products. No pipes, redirection, or device drivers were supported. The command interpreter supported the following commands: PC-DOS 1.0 worked with 160KB floppies and did not support folders (all files had to be in the root). It was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.DOS 1.x was very limited in what it could do. Ultimately, it was the key product in Microsoft's development from a programming language company to a diverse software development firm, providing the company with essential revenue and marketing resources. Progressive version releases delivered support for other mass storage media in ever greater sizes and formats, along with added feature support for newer processors and rapidly evolving computer architectures. Initially, MS-DOS was targeted at Intel 8086 processors running on computer hardware using floppy disks to store and access not only the operating system, but application software and user data as well. Although MS-DOS and PC DOS were initially developed in parallel by Microsoft and IBM, the two products diverged after twelve years, in 1993, with recognizable differences in compatibility, syntax, and capabilities.īeginning in 1988 with DR-DOS, several competing products were released for the x86 platform, and MS-DOS went through eight versions, until development ceased in 2000. IBM licensed and re-released it in 1981 as PC DOS 1.0 for use in its PCs. MS-DOS versions 1x-7.0 unsupported as of Decem MS-DOS versions 7.10 and 8.0 unsupported as of July 11, 2006. ![]()
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