MS-DOS je napunio 30 godina

[Lucky]

Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, Microsoft bought the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000. QDOS, otherwise known as 86-DOS, was designed by SCP to run on the Intel 8086 processor, and was originally thrown together in just two months for a 0.1 release in 1980. Meanwhile, IBM had planned on powering its upcoming Personal Computer with CP/M-86, which had been the standard OS for Intel 8086 and 8080 architectures at the time, but a deal could not be struck with CP/M’s developer, Digital Research. IBM then approached Microsoft, which already had a few years of experience under its belt with M-DOS, BASIC, and other important tools — and as you can probably tell from the landscape of the computer world today, the IBM/Microsoft partnership worked out rather well indeed.

IBM released its Personal Computer in August 1981 running version 1.14 of SCP’s QDOS — but a few months later Microsoft produced MS-DOS 1.24, which then became the standard IBM PC operating system. In March 1983, both MS-DOS 2.0 and the IBM PC/XT were released. The rest, as they say, is history. MS-DOS 3.0 followed in 1984 (alongside the IBM PC/AT), and MS-DOS 4.0 with a mouse-powered, menu-driven interface arrived in 1989. It’s around this point that IBM’s PC operating system, PC-DOS, began to diverge from MS-DOS — and of course, come 1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0, which would change Microsoft’s focus forever. It’s also around this time that developers start to feel the pinch of the 640KB conventional memory limit imposed by IBM’s original hardware specifications.

Still, come 1991, MS-DOS 5.0 was released (along with the much-loved QBASIC), and MS-DOS 6.0 with much-maligned DoubleSpace disk compression tool appeared in 1993. By this stage, IBM, Digital Research (DR-DOS), and Microsoft were all leapfrogging each other with different version numbers and features. IBM released PC-DOS 6.1, and MS followed quickly with MS-DOS 6.2. IBM released PC-DOS 6.3 — and Novell trumped them all by releasing Novell DOS 7.0. In 1995, however, Windows 95 with an underpinning of MS-DOS 7.0 and its new FAT32 file system was released, and the history of DOS draws to a close. Every other version of DOS was quickly squished out of existence by Windows 95, and it wouldn’t be until the late 90s and the emergence of the Dot Com Bubble that another command-line OS would yet again rise to prominence in the shape of Linux.

[exile]

jebote ja ladno nisam znao da DOS znaci Dirty Operating System :/

Tacnije nisam nikad ni mislio da je to skracenica :)

[Lucky]

Koliko ja znam, uvek se pominjalo "Disk Operating System". Moguće da je MS posle promenio u "Disk" da bi bilo "politički korektnije". I ja prvi put čujem za dirty...

[reiser]

IBM again approached Bill Gates. Gates in turn approached Seattle Computer Products. There, programmer Tim Paterson had developed a variant of CP/M-80, intended as an internal product for testing SCP's new 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU card for the S-100 bus. The system was initially named "QDOS" (Quick and Dirty Operating System), before being made commercially available as 86-DOS. Microsoft purchased 86-DOS, allegedly for $50,000. This became Microsoft Disk Operating System, MS-DOS, introduced in 1981.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS

[Dobermann]

hahahaha to je bilo vreme jbt :) kakav avalanche secanja izazva ovaj topic misa mu sarenog :)

[Lucky]

haha, jest' bilo lepo vreme, ali prvenstveno zato što smo bili klinci i onda ti je bilo bitno samo da ti neka igra proradi, i to je to :)

[`Dr. Nick Riviera`]

cd nc =P

[exile]

Ja sam uvek jurio .exe fajl i tako sam znao da pokrecem igre :D

npr cat.exe :D

[voodoo_]

Ja uzeo Princa Persije '96 u MB Softu na disketi, sav srećan otišao kod komšije i mislio da ću samo ukucati prince.exe ili tako nešto, kad ono ARJ arhiva, tad nisam znao ni šta je to, Norton Commander ulazio u nju ali nije radio raspakivanje dok se ne konfiguriše putanja ka ARJ.EXE, džabe dadoh marku!

[voodoo_]

Pa nisam ja Mohi!

[absolute]

Meni je potpuno neprirodno saznanje da Vudu ne zna nesto sto ga covek pita :)

[f4ts0]

gospode stariji sam od dosa :(

[Lucky]

to ti je zbog koleta :)

Meni je najgore bilo kad uzmeš nešto na 4-5 disketa i jedna od njih ne radi ... brate, i onda nazad do prodavnaje, a put do tamo i nazad kao večnost :))

[ZerBah]

Da, diskete su bile smrt... Dodushe, posle kaseta, diskete su bile zakon

Igore, nisi jedini )

[peja_]

)

[Doca]

:')

[dvnityCker]

Da, diskete su bile smrt... Dodushe, posle kaseta, diskete su bile zakon

Igore, nisi jedini )

kad se setim shtelovanja

[Lucky]

ali obrni okreni, dos je bio brz! :)) sve šta si hteo da uradiš samo napišeš neki broj karaktera i udri. Nema kliktanja, šetanja mišem.

Mislim da Windows 3.1 i to posle nisam ni koristio nešto specijalno, osim kad je neko hteo da igra pasijans :)