About MS-DOS
MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) was the Microsoft-marketed version
of the first widely-installed operating system in personal computers. It was essentially the same operating system that Bill Gates’s young company developed for IBM as Personal Computer – Disk Operating System (PC-DOS). Most users of either DOS system simply referred to their system as Disk Operating System. Like
PC-DOS, MS-DOS was (and still is) a non-graphical line-oriented command-driven operating system, with a relatively simple interface but not overly “friendly” user interface.
The first Microsoft Windows operating system was really an application that ran on top of the MS-DOS operating system. Today, Windows operating systems continue to support DOS (or a DOS-like user interface) for special purposes by emulating the operating system.
Bill said,
I tried the msdos 6.22 image to try and load new firmware for promise sx6000 controller. after dos boot the c: drive is not available. what good is being able to boot with no further access to the rest of your hardware??
Preetam Doorgah said,
when i’ve burn the boot image it’s saying “missing command interpreter” when booting from the burnt cd
the file burn is dos6.22.iso
eigger oniras oyalep said,
what does ms dos really helps????
Kurt Francois said,
Hi Im interested in the machine code or the references to addressess and index linked addressess and the affect on systems, accumulators etc…
Luis Miguel said,
I downloaded the Ms-dos ultimate image for education propouses.
If your learning how to create primary patitions, extendended partitions and so on, you can easily practise with VMWARE installing the iso image of the msdos and thats it.
Jan said,
Hi,
I have an old applcation, which runs only under DOS. I would like to create ONE bootable CD, which boots, DOS and got Noton Commander (DOS) + my old application aleady installed. The “working files” for my application shoul be stored on the Harddisk, which should be D:
How to add to the existing ISO file additonal applications????
Jan
mark said,
DOS any DOS only sees a fat partition you need to get an addon for mounting an NTFS partition which is why you can not see the c drive its formated to NTFS.
There is a dos exe file which you can run from dos which will see the NTFS partition.
NTFS4DOS