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11-10-2017, 10:17 AM

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Posted By anisoptera

Yep, one such example was IBM's DOS/360 or 'DOS'...

Yep, one such example was IBM's DOS/360 or 'DOS' as it was simply called back then.

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11-10-2017, 09:55 AM

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As far as I know 'DOS' took virtually nothing...

As far as I know 'DOS' took virtually nothing from UNIX.

MSDOS/PCDOS actually came into being when MS acquired 86-DOS from a small US company. 86-DOS was already being developed to emulate CP/M's...

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11-10-2017, 06:32 AM

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No, OS/2 was a joint IBM and MS project from the...

No, OS/2 was a joint IBM and MS project from the mid 80's until the split, around '90 or '91 as I recall. MS effectively forked to develop it's own "NT" from "NT OS/2", but still primarily kept the...

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11-08-2017, 10:54 AM

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I can assure you that they did. Though Windows...

I can assure you that they did. Though Windows 9x didn't rely on DOS real mode device drivers, it did require DOS (v7.x as I recall) in order to run. But unlike Windows 3.x, once the "OS" actually...

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11-08-2017, 10:16 AM

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Posted By anisoptera

Nope, it's only been an OS in it's own right...

Nope, it's only been an OS in it's own right since NT, which was based on OS/2.

Windows 95/98/98SE/ME ran on DOS as well (but were 32 bit).

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