what did Microsoft originally use MS-DOS for when they made it?

Answer 1

MS-DOS was one of the first operating systems for IBM compatible PCs. MS = Microsoft DOS = Disk Operating System

Microsoft made its first billions with MS-DOS because rather than selling it to IBM, it charged so much per machine sold.

You can still use MS-DOS to some degree. Any C:\ prompt command used today comes from a DOS command.

By the way, there was DOS before MS-DOS. Microsoft outbid another company for the IBM contract.

Answer 2

I still have one computer that only has the dos platform. It uses less memory and my menu is a list of batch files that I wrote myself. I would prefer this platform to Windows because of how memory intensive windows has become, if only I could access the Internet from dos. Windows has made it much easier for viruses and spy-ware to access computers. My dos computer has never had a virus, but it won't operate any of the newer software that "requires windows".

Answer 3

MS-DOS began as QDOS (for Quick and Dirty Operating System), written by Tim Paterson for computer manufacturer Seattle Computer Products (SCP) in 1980. It was marketed by SCP as 86-DOS because it was designed to run on the Intel 8086 processor. QDOS function calls were based on the dominant CP/M-80 operating system, written by Digital Research, but it used a different file system. In a sequence of events that would later inspire much folklore, Microsoft negotiated a license for QDOS from SCP in December 1980 for $25,000, then re-licensed QDOS to IBM. Microsoft then acquired all rights to QDOS for only $50,000 from SCP in July, 1981, shortly before the PC's release.
The original MS-DOS advertisement in 1981.
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The original MS-DOS advertisement in 1981.

IBM and Microsoft both released versions of DOS; the IBM version was supplied with the IBM PC and known as PC-DOS. Originally, IBM only validated and packaged Microsoft developments, and thus IBM's versions tended to be released shortly after Microsoft's. However, MS-DOS 4.0 was actually based on IBM PC-DOS 4.0, as Microsoft was by then concentrating on OS/2 development.[citation needed] Microsoft released its versions under the name "MS-DOS", while IBM released its versions under the name "PC-DOS." Initially, when Microsoft would license their OEM version of MS-DOS, the computer manufacturer would customize its name (i.e. TandyDOS, Compaq DOS, etc). Most of these versions were identical to the official MS-DOS; however, Microsoft began to insist that OEMs start calling the product MS-DOS. Eventually, only IBM resisted this move.

Computer advertisements of this period often claimed that computers were "IBM-Compatible" or very rarely "MS-DOS compatible." The two terms were not synonyms. There were computers which used MS-DOS which could not run all the software that an IBM-Compatible machine could. An example is the Pivot, which used MS-DOS but was not IBM-Compatible.

Programs written specifically for IBM compatibles could run faster by bypassing slow MS-DOS functions, e.g. by writing video information directly to the area of memory assigned to it.

Answer 4

Bill Gates developed dos as the first operating system for IBM personal computer. My first computer used Dos and it is a headache to remember all the commands.

Answer 5

cool pc games that run in ms-dos from windows 95/98/98se
now you still can access
full ms-dos from windows xp
so the cool pc games from windows 95/98/98se
still work on new pc's
running windows xp
also from config sys in windows trype in the command's
and from
config sys
in ms dos mode
type in the command's
and boost up the pc memory for them
dos pc games that dont want to run in windows
give the windows xp dos
a full memory boost up

Answer 6

it was the first operating system, you had to run all of your programs from there. instead of having a dekstop....ya know?

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Answer 7

the operating system.