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MS-DOS 5.0 came in April 1991, and DR DOS 6.0 was released the following June. [90] These products are collectively referred to as "DOS", even though "Disk Operating System" is a generic term used on other systems unrelated to the x86 and IBM PC. "MS-DOS" can also be a generic reference to DOS on IBM PC compatible computers.
DOS Shell was one of the first successful attempts to create a basic graphical user interface (GUI) type file manager in DOS, although it is properly referred to as a text user interface (TUI) or Character-Oriented Windows (COW) even though graphical modes were available on supported hardware (VGA-equipped PCs).
Quick Menu is a graphical user interface for MS-DOS developed by OSCS Software Development, Inc.. Three versions were made: Quick Menu, Quick Menu II [3] and Quick Menu III. [4] In DOS users have to type all commands via the keyboard. By using the cd-command users could navigate through (sub)directories.
The company planned to improve MS-DOS over time, so it would be almost indistinguishable from single-user Xenix, or XEDOS, which would also run on the Motorola 68000, Zilog Z-8000, and LSI-11; they would be upwardly compatible with Xenix, which BYTE in 1983 described as "the multi-user MS-DOS of the future". [10] [11]
A further ICL/MS MS-DOS 4.10.30 version was released on May 10, 1988. No further releases were made once the contracts had been fulfilled. In July 1988, IBM announced " IBM DOS 4.0 ", an unrelated product continuing from DOS 3.3 and 3.4 , leading to initial conjecture that Microsoft might release it under a different version number. [ 5 ]
GEM is known primarily as the native graphical user interface of the Atari ST series of computers, providing a WIMP desktop. It was also available for IBM PC compatibles [3] [4] and shipped with some models from Amstrad. GEM is used as the core for some commercial MS-DOS programs, the most notable being Ventura Publisher. It was ported to other ...
Windows 3.0 is the third major release of Microsoft Windows, launched on May 22, 1990.It introduces a new graphical user interface (GUI) that represents applications as clickable icons, instead of the list of file names in its predecessors.
Microsoft also added a standard set of disk commands to MSX-DOS that were compatible with MS-DOS but not with CP/M. Finally they converted their pipelining system from MS-DOS to MSX-DOS. The resulting DOS was a system that was much user-friendlier than CP/M, but was (in principle) compatible with major CP/M software packages such as WordStar ...