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This is the first MS-DOS version Microsoft offered in a shrink wrap packaged product for smaller OEMs or system builders. [264] Apricot Computers pre-announces MS-DOS 4.0, the first multitasking version. Apricot will sell MS-DOS 4.0 to European customers as the controlling program for network servers that support a new family of Apricot ...
MS-DOS version 5.0. Version 5.0 (Retail) – includes a full-screen text editor. Many of the bugs and compatibility issues from MS-DOS 4.x are resolved. First version to support 3.5-inch 2.88 MB floppy drives and diskettes. The SHARE command was not needed anymore for old DOS 1.x style FCB file API to partitions over 32 MB.
Each computer would have its own distinct hardware and its own version of MS-DOS, a situation similar to the one that existed for CP/M, with MS-DOS emulating the same solution as CP/M to adapt for different hardware platforms. So there were many different original equipment manufacturer (OEM) versions of MS-DOS for different hardware. But the ...
OpenVMS V1.0 (First OpenVMS AXP (Alpha) specific version, November 1992) OS/2 2.0 (First i386 32-bit based version) Plan 9 First Edition (First public release was made available to universities) RSTS/E 10.1 (Last stable release, September 1992) SLS; Solaris 2.0 (Successor to SunOS 4.x; based on SVR4 instead of BSD) Windows 3.1; 1993 IBM 4690 ...
These names (except for NUL) have continued to be supported in all versions of MS-DOS, PC DOS and DR-DOS ever since. [38] LST was also available in some OEM versions of MS-DOS 1.25, whereas other OEM versions of MS-DOS 1.25 already used LPT1 (first line printer) and COM1 (first serial communication device) instead
A "personal computer" version of Windows is considered to be a version that end-users or OEMs can install on personal computers, including desktop computers, laptops, and workstations. The first five versions of Windows– Windows 1.0 , Windows 2.0 , Windows 2.1 , Windows 3.0 , and Windows 3.1 –were all based on MS-DOS, and were aimed at both ...
For another list of versions of Microsoft Windows, ... MS-DOS. See MS-DOS Versions for a full list. Windows Windows 1.0 until 13.4. Name Date of release Windows 1.0 ...
By that point, MicroPro had dropped the generic MS-DOS support and WordStar 4.0 was exclusively for IBM compatibles, which differed from MS-DOS-compatible programs in terms of screen addressing. It was the first version of WordStar supporting directories—a feature nearly mandatory to be usable on machines with hard disks.