
ms dos - What is the best way to obtain old versions of MS-DOS …
2020年3月19日 · MS-DOS 5.0, 6.0, 6.2, and 6.22; Windows 3.1, 3.11, 3.2, and Windows for Workgroups 3.11; Windows XP and later; Office 95 and later (excluding Office 97); Windows 95/98/ME, NT4 and 2000 are no longer available. (Windows 95 was removed in 2001, the rest in 2003 following settlements with Sun Microsystems.) For those you’d need to find a second ...
Is there a reason to prefer earlier versions of MS-DOS over later?
2018年1月3日 · I know you said "MS-DOS" specifically, but PC-DOS was MS-DOS up until PC-DOS 6.1 in 1993. (MS-DOS 6.0 came out 3 months earlier.) With the split, IBM dropped QBasic (later to be replaced in v7.0 with REXX) and replaced the MS-DOS editor with the superior programmer's editor E. For me, that was reason enough to stop using MS-DOS and become a …
ms dos - Why does the MS-DOS 4.0 and 6.22 boot sector change …
2025年1月2日 · The sectors/track patch enables MS-DOS to boot from floppies that have more sectors per track than the BIOS expects (10 spt 800KB on DD floppies, 21 spt for 1.72MB on HD floppies). – Michael Karcher
Breaking the 16-head CHS geometry limit in QEMU and Bochs
2025年3月7日 · QEMU will boot MS-DOS from an 7.84 GB raw disk image just fine: $ qemu-system-i386 -hda hda.img $ qemu-system-i386 -drive if=ide,file=hda.img,index=0,media=disk,format=raw In both cases, however, QEMU will assume the number of heads to be 16 , effectively lowering the CHS-addressable hard drive size limit to 504 MB , similarly to Bochs (so dare ...
Why does MS-DOS 6.22 boot so slowly?
2025年1月5日 · I'm running MS-DOS 6.22 and other versions of MS-DOS in qemu-system-i386, and I've noticed that MS-DOS 6.22 boots very slowly: several seconds. Why is it, and how can it be fixed? Some more info: There is only io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com, an empty config.sys and an empty autoexec.bat on the FAT16 filesystem. There aren't any other filesystems.
ms dos - Was there an autocomplete utility in MS-DOS?
2019年9月27日 · MS-DOS (at least 6.22) had optional features such as DOSKEY to remember the command line history, which is now standard on modern command prompts. However, I'm not aware of an autocomplete feature, such as on modern systems by pressing Tab. Was there a Microsoft supplied or third party utility for autocomplete on MS-DOS?
What is most appropriate choice for DOS for a 1990 80386 PC?
2017年4月17日 · Wikipedia puts the release of MS-DOS 5.0 on June 11 1991. Windows 3.0, on the other hand, was released on May 22, 1990. Thus, Windows 3.0 predates MS-DOS 5.0 by over a year. MS-DOS 4.01 was released in November 1988. Windows 3.1 (April 6, 1992) would probably be period-correct with MS-DOS 5.0, though; MS-DOS 6.0 was released in March 1993. –
ms dos - How do I create a boot menu to select between …
2018年6月21日 · Beware that from W95 the MS-DOS is not fully compatible with the old MS-DOS 6.22 so some games and apps will not work properly or at all. The other answers here cover the MS-DOS menu well enough so I see no point in describing the obvious mechanism... From NT,W2K and XP there was no more MS-DOS just console so for those you need to use boot.ini ...
ms dos - What did the SELECT command do in DOS?
2020年9月6日 · In version 4.0 of PC DOS and MS-DOS, SELECT became an interactive installation tool, which was started automatically from the installation disk (or the “Select” disk on 5.25” disk sets). In version 5.0 of PC DOS and MS-DOS, the setup program was renamed to SETUP.EXE and introduced support for upgrading
ms dos - Did MS-DOS ever drop ability to support non-IBM PC …
2022年10月9日 · The fact that Microsoft included all the “expected” utilities with MS-DOS 3.2 (and later) didn’t preclude computer manufacturers from using the OAK to produce their own OEM version of MS-DOS, and this practice continued up until at least version 6.0; obviously these OEM versions contained ever fewer OEM-specific tools, and by version 5.0 ...