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The first official release of Rufus, version 1.0.3 (earlier versions were internal/alpha only [7]), was released on December 4, 2011, with originally only MS-DOS support. Version 1.0.4 introduced FreeDOS support and version 1.1.0 introduced ISO image support. Until 1.2.0, two separate versions were provided, with one for MS-DOS and one for ...
MS-DOS 4.0 [a] was a multitasking release of MS-DOS developed by Microsoft based on MS-DOS 2.0. Lack of interest from OEMs , particularly IBM (who previously gave Microsoft multitasking code on IBM PC DOS included with TopView ), led to it being released only in a scaled-back form.
As MS-DOS 7.0 was a part of Windows 95, support for it also ended when Windows 95 extended support ended on December 31, 2001. [84] As MS-DOS 7.10 and MS-DOS 8.0 were part of Windows 98 and Windows ME, respectively, support ended when Windows 98 and ME extended support ended on July 11, 2006, thus ending support and updates of MS-DOS from ...
The FreeDOS project began on 29 June 1994, after Microsoft announced it would no longer sell or support MS-DOS. Jim Hall, who at the time was a student, [30] posted a manifesto proposing the development of PD-DOS, a public domain version of DOS. [31] Within a few weeks, other programmers including Pat Villani and Tim Norman joined the project.
Originally MS-DOS was designed to be an operating system that could run on any computer with a 8086-family microprocessor.It competed with other operating systems written for such computers, such as CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal.
Running a temporary operating environment, such as when using a Live USB drive. [4] Administrative access in case of lost password is possible with an appropriate boot disk with some operating systems; Games (e.g. for Amiga home computers, running MS-DOS video games on modern computers by using a bootable MS-DOS or FreeDOS USB flash drive).
Many MS-DOS programs and device drivers interacted with DOS in a low-level way, for example, by patching low-level BIOS interrupts such as int 13h, the low-level disk I/O interrupt. When a program issued an int 21h call to access MS-DOS, the call would go first to the 32-bit file system manager, which would attempt to detect this sort of patching.
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 ...