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MS-DOS vs IBM-DOS

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Name: digitalian
Date: June 12, 2006 at 14:03:33 Pacific
OS: DOS
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Can someone explain the difference between Microsoft's MS-DOS and IBM's DOS? For example, does MS-DOS 3.3 and IBM DOS 3.3 have the exact same features?



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Name: jessejames
Date: June 12, 2006 at 14:50:48 Pacific
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No need to reinvent the wheel Google is your friend:

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ms-dos+pc-dos+comparison&btnG=Search&meta=

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Response Number 2
Name: jboy
Date: June 12, 2006 at 17:05:42 Pacific
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They're the same thing (only different)

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Response Number 3
Name: os2fan2
Date: June 15, 2006 at 03:12:45 Pacific
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Beginning with version 6, msdos and pc-dos are different things. The bits that were in DOS 4 (ie dosshell, edlin, etc) are preserved in DOS 6, but there are a whole lot of different utilities etc.

msdos has a swag of defanged Norton stuff, while pc-dos tended to have full versions of older "Central Point" software. That is, for example, if the current version of the product were v7, then MS-DOS would have v7-lite, while PC-DOS would have v6-full.

They used different editors (qbasic v 1.1, against e.exe v3.12), etc. Beginning with v7, rexx was integrated into pc-dos.

The versions are then:

msdos 6.xx 6.00, 6.20, 6.21, 6.22
ibmdos 6.xx 6.10
pcdos 6.xx 6.10, 6.30
pcdos 7.xx 7.00, 2000 = 7.00B,

ibmdos and pcdos call themselves by these names.

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