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,
08.26.06 at 8:50 am
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,
09.29.06 at 11:35 pm
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,
11.04.08 at 12:38 am
what does ms dos really helps????