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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

See also

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 seperate 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. The last known kernel build for the OEM product is 2003.

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