MS-DOS (play /ˌɛmɛsˈdɒs/ EM-es-DOSS; abbreviate for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating arrangement for x86-based claimed computers. It was the best frequently acclimated affiliate of the DOS ancestors of operating systems, and was the capital operating arrangement for IBM PC accordant claimed computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually abolished by operating systems alms a graphical user interface (GUI), in accurate by assorted ancestors of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
MS-DOS grew from a 1981 appeal by IBM for an operating arrangement for its IBM PC ambit of claimed computers. Microsoft bound bought the rights to QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), additionally accepted as 86-DOS,2 from Seattle Computer Products, and began assignment on modifying it to accommodated IBM's specification. The aboriginal edition, MS-DOS 1.0, was launched in 1982.3 The adaptation alien with IBM's PCs was alleged PC DOS. Although MS-DOS and PC DOS were initially developed in alongside by Microsoft and IBM, the two articles eventually went their abstracted ways.
During its life, several aggressive articles were appear for the x86 platform,4 and MS-DOS itself would go through eight versions, until development accomplished in 2000. Ultimately it was the key artefact in Microsoft's advance from a programming languages aggregation to a assortedcomputer application development firm, accouterment the aggregation with capital acquirement and business resources. It was additionally the basal basal operating arrangement on which aboriginal versions of Windows ran as a GUI.
MS-DOS grew from a 1981 appeal by IBM for an operating arrangement for its IBM PC ambit of claimed computers. Microsoft bound bought the rights to QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), additionally accepted as 86-DOS,2 from Seattle Computer Products, and began assignment on modifying it to accommodated IBM's specification. The aboriginal edition, MS-DOS 1.0, was launched in 1982.3 The adaptation alien with IBM's PCs was alleged PC DOS. Although MS-DOS and PC DOS were initially developed in alongside by Microsoft and IBM, the two articles eventually went their abstracted ways.
During its life, several aggressive articles were appear for the x86 platform,4 and MS-DOS itself would go through eight versions, until development accomplished in 2000. Ultimately it was the key artefact in Microsoft's advance from a programming languages aggregation to a assortedcomputer application development firm, accouterment the aggregation with capital acquirement and business resources. It was additionally the basal basal operating arrangement on which aboriginal versions of Windows ran as a GUI.
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