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Also known as DOS

MS-DOS ( ; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft. Collectively, MS-DOS, its alternate branding as IBM PC DOS, and a few operating systems attempting to be compatible with MS-DOS, are sometimes referred to as "DOS" (which is also the generic acronym for disk operating system). MS-DOS was the main operating system for IBM PC compatibles during the 1980s, from which point it was gradually superseded by operating systems offering a graphical user interface (GUI), in variou

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Key facts

OS.name
MS-DOS
OS.logo
Msdos-icon.svg
OS.logo_size
x64px
OS.screenshot
220px
OS.caption
The command-line interface, showing that the current directory is the root of drive C:
OS.developer
Microsoft
OS.family
DOS
OS.discontinued
yes
OS.influenced_by
TOPS-10, CP/M
OS.ui
Command-line (COMMAND.COM), text (DOS Shell)
OS.website
Internet Archive MS-DOS overview
OS.source_model
Closed source; open source for versions 1.25, 2.11 and 4.00
OS.kernel_type
Monolithic
OS.preceded by
86-DOS
OS.succeeded_by
Windows NT (since Windows XP)
OS.supported_platforms
x86
OS.latest_release_version
8.0 (Windows Me)
OS.programmed_in
x86 assembly, later versions also used C

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Source code

Link to the source-code README · not written by Vinony

Wikidata facts

Follows
86-DOS
Developer
Microsoft
Image
StartingMsdos.png
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influenced by
Unix
Commons category
MS-DOS
programmed in
assembly language
GUI toolkit or framework
command-line interface
inception
1981-08-12
source code repository URL
github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
software version identifier
8.01
publication date
1981-08-12
copyright license
proprietary license
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