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DOS

  1.       

    Disk Operating System

  2.       

    operating systems which dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995

  3.       

    free alternative to (MS-)DOS are like FreeDOS or OpenDos

  4.       

    6.22 was the last stand-alone version of MS-DOS

  5.       

    Microoft bought 86-DOS in 1981 and renamed the operating system MS-DOS

  6.       

    Digital Research released DR-DOS in May 1988

  7.       

    the first IBM branded version, PC-DOS 1.0, was released in August, 1981

  8.       

    drives are referred to by identifying letters, e.g. "A" and "B" are used for floppy drives

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