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Ms-DOS Download
Please where can i get the origanal MS-DOS, I need it.
Not mandatory but botting from a floppy is best. |
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You can get lots of MS-DOS boot disks here.
I doubt you really want the original MS-DOS -- DOS 1.0 didn't understand things like 1.44MB floppies. There's also FreeDOS, which is MS-DOS compatible. I've seen board manufacturers use it for BIOS upgrade disks and the like, so it must be pretty stable. Last edited by Corona688; 09-21-2006 at 07:49 AM. |
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With Windows XP, you can right-click on the floppy drive and one of the options is to format the floppy. A window will pop-up and it has a check box for "create an MS-DOS setup disk". If you remember the old "setup" command under DOS, that is basicly what happens. The resulting floppy can boot up and run command.com, but nothing else is on the floppy. I did that, and from my MS-DOS prompt, I typed "ver". Oddly enough, I got:
Windows Millennium [Version 4.90.3000] I have to believe that this represents the latest version of MS-DOS. DR-DOS is still with us. This is an option if you want to buy a supported product. Apparently DR-DOS forked at some time in the past. There seems to be a free open-source version DR-DOS/OpenDOS. So there are two versions of DR-DOS available. And there is a very ambitious project called GNU/DOS which is a basicly a distro of FreeDOS. |
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The ME boot disks may be the newest but I don't reccomend them. Microsoft gutted nearly everything important. Things like "format" return obnoxious messages about how everyone knows you aren't supposed to use a DOS prompt these days.
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Ebbi, please remember the rules.
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