PC-DOS

Updated: 12/01/2019 by Computer Hope
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Short for Personal Computer Disk operating system, PC-DOS is a text-based operating system released by IBM in August 1981. In 1999, IBM repackaged PC-DOS as PC-DOS 2000, making PC-DOS Y2K compliant. PC-DOS has similarities to Microsoft's MS-DOS, and can even run with Microsoft Windows 3.x.

PC-DOS is based on an unauthorized clone of CP/M, which Microsoft purchased from Seattle Software Works.

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