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This article presents a timeline of events in the history of 16-bit x86 DOS -family disk operating systems from 1980 to present. Non-x86 operating systems named "DOS" are not part of the scope of this timeline.
12 wrz 2023 · Microsoft licensed the operating system 86-DOS from SCP (Seattle Computer Products) for $25,000 on July 27, 1981. Microsoft PC-DOS 1.0, the first official version, was released in August 1981. It was designed to operate on the IBM PC.
Microsoft kept the version number, but renamed it MS-DOS. They also licensed MS-DOS 1.10/1.14 to IBM, which, in August 1981, offered it as PC DOS 1.0 as one of three operating systems [13] for the IBM 5150 or the IBM PC. [2] Within a year, Microsoft licensed MS-DOS to over 70 other companies. [14]
This is a list of MS-DOS versions released to the public. Microsoft DOS was released through the OEM channel, until Digital Research released DR DOS 5.0 as a retail upgrade. With PC DOS 5.00.1, the IBM-Microsoft agreement started to end, and IBM entered the retail DOS market with IBM DOS 5.00.1...
Microsoft developed the code to produce 86-DOS, and finally, purchased the product from SCP, and renamed the software MS-DOS. The legend was born. Gates and Paul Allen polished the 4000 lines of assembly code that was MS-DOS version 1.0 and offered it to IBM, by now (1981) desperate for an OS for it s new flagship product.
IN AUGUST 1981 Microsoft introduced MS-DOS, Version 1.0, a simple operating system providing support for a new IBM machine and a fledgling industry. Over the last six years the machine and the industry have grown up, and MS-DOS has evolved into MS OS/2, a very sophisticated, multitasking operating environment. Presented here is a brief but
• When IBM launched its revolutionary personal computer, the IBM PC, in August 1981, it came complete with a 16-bit operating system from Microsoft, MS-DOS 1.0. This was Microsoft's first operating system, and it also became the first widely used operating system for the IBM PC and its clones. • MS-DOS 1.0 was actually a renamed version of ...
