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Computer operating system

IBM PC DOS, also known as IBM DOS or PC DOS, is a discontinued disk operating system for the IBM Personal Computer, its successors, and IBM PC compatibles. It was sold by IBM from the early 1980s into the 2000s. Developed by Microsoft, it was also sold by that company to the open market as MS-DOS. Both operating systems were identical or almost identical until 1993, when IBM began selling PC DOS 6.1 with its own new features. The collective shorthand for PC DOS and MS-DOS was DOS, which is also the generic term for disk operating system, and is shared with dozens of disk operating systems called DOS. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: IBM PC DOSA 5-minute orientation
  2. Pick up a classic book: Reconfigurable Processor Array A Bit Sliced Parallel Computer (USA)The most-reprinted book on the subject
  3. Read the landmark paper: An Efficient Methodology for Mapping Quantum Circuits to the IBM QX ArchitecturesCited 304 times
  4. Go sideways: MS-DOSA closely related topic
  5. Go sideways: Comparison of MS-DOS compatible operating systemsA closely related topic

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🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Versions
  3. PC DOS as a distributed file client

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