PC DOS

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IBM PC DOS (Personal Computer Disk Operating System) was announced in 1981 as an operating system for IBM's Personal Computer (5150). With introduction of Personal System/2 family it was renamed to IBM DOS in April 1987. Until version 7.0 released in 1995 brought back the traditional old name.

Editors

• edlin
• EDIT (part of QBasic, only in versions 5.0x)
• E

Programming Tools

• Debug
• Linker
• IBM PC BASIC
• QBasic
• PC DOS REXX

Versions

• 1981: IBM PC DOS 1.00
• 1982: IBM PC DOS 1.10
• 1983: IBM PC DOS 2.00
• 1983: IBM PC DOS 2.10
• 1984: IBM PC DOS 3.00
• 1985: IBM PC DOS 3.10
• 1986: IBM PC DOS 3.20
• 1987: IBM DOS 3.30
• 1988: IBM DOS 4.00
• 1991: IBM DOS 5.00
• 1992: IBM DOS 5.02
• 1993: IBM DOS 6.1
• 1994: IBM DOS 6.3
• 1995: IBM PC DOS 7.0
• 1997: IBM PC DOS 2000

While it was not released as a separate product it should be noted that those that ordered OEM IBM PC DOS installed on computers from vendors such as IBM itself, Lenovo and Dell, got shipped a DOS that contained the userland applications from PC DOS 2000 but a newer kernel that declared itself to be DOS 7.1.

Publications

• GG24-4133-01: Upgrading to PC DOS 6.3

Links

• PC DOS Retro by Vernon Brooks
• IBM PC DOS 1.00 (Daniel B. Sedory)
• IBM PC DOS 1.10 (Daniel B. Sedory)