(MicroSoft-Disk Operating System) A single user operating system for PCs from Microsoft. It was functionally identical to IBM's PC-DOS version, except that starting with DOS 6, MS-DOS and PC-DOS each provided different sets of utility programs. Both MS-DOS and PC-DOS are called DOS. See DOS.
8) Under the terms of the dissolution, IBM continued to develop MS-DOS, and eventually its own variant, PC-DOS, which it loaded on Pcs bearing the IBM nameplate.
Ease-of-Use Features and Other Enhancements =20 With MS-DOS 6.
Out of the box, the program will boot into MS-DOS with Apple available in the background, but the software can be reconfigured so that the computer boots straight into Apple emulation.
Great things come from modest beginnings, and the great Microsoft devices and services of the future will probably start small, just as MS-DOS and Word for Windows did.
0 is available now with the MS-DOS operating system for all members of the PW family.
Headquartered in San Diego, CA, Express Logic offers the most advanced run-time solution for deeply embedded applications, including the popular ThreadX(R) RTOS, the high-performance NetX(TM) TCP/IP stack, the FileX(TM) embedded MS-DOS compatible file system, and the USBX(TM) Host/Device USB protocol stack.
With more MS-DOS computers around, it pays to write software to the Microsoft standard, which in turn makes it more useful to own an MS-DOS computer.
BRS Software Products, a division of Maxwell Online, has announced BRS/SEarch for the professional, a full-text retrieval software package for MS-DOS.
0-compatible real-time kernel, complemented by Express Logic's NetX(TM) TCP/IP stack and its FileX(TM) MS-DOS compatible FAT file system.
Recent versions of MS-DOS include a memory management module called EMM386 that helped.
Featuring a Microsoft MS-DOS operating system, the system's compatibility with third-party IBM PC software was considered mandatory for business acceptance.
Express Logic also met the need for a small memory footprint with its FileX with MS-DOS FAT file system compatibility, which occupies a scant 5KB of ROM.