
PC DOS

Launched: 1981
The disk operating system for IBM PCs, which IBM commissioned from Microsoft.
Since Microsoft didn't have such a system, it bought QDOS from Tim Paterson for a ridiculously low price, and with its sales, it became a giant in the industry.

PC DOS versions
Year | Ver. |
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1981 | 1.0 |
1982 | 1.1It allowed data to be written on both sides of a floppy disk, thus doubling the capacity of the IBM machine. |
1983 | 2.0Created for the IBM PC/XT, the first PC to store data on a hard drive. |
1984 | 2.1Created for the launch of the IBM PCjr. |
1984 | 3.0Created for the IBM PC/AT, a computer with Intel's 80286 processor. |
1988 | 4.0A version for i386 that would be the embryo of OS/2. |
1991 | 5 |
1993 | 6.1 |
1995 | 7.0 |
1998 | 2000Version 7.0 revised to support Y2K. |
2003 | 7.1Support for FAT32. |