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20 YEARS OF DOS HISTORY:
-----------------------
Updated 03/25/05
I created this "timeline" to show the history of the FreeDOS Project as it
relates to other DOS projects out there. This is a compilation of information
from many sources - If you have additional history bits, please email them to
me. -jh
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 |
---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x--
-1980- *
QDOS 0.1 7/80
|
MS-DOS 1.0<------------- 86-DOS 0.3 12/80
-1981- | |
IBM Personal Computer |<------------------ 86-DOS 1.0 4/81
DOS 1.0 8/81<-------|
: |
-1982- : |
1.1 6/82 <-- 1.10 6/82
: 1.24 6/82
: 1.25 7/82
-1983- 2.0 3/83 <-------|
: 2.01 5/83 SuperDOS
2.1 10/83<-------| |
: 2.11 12/83 |
-1984- : *2.12 |
: | |
3.0 8/84 <-------| |
3.1 11/84<-- 3.05 11/84 |
-1985- : | |
Digital Research
: | | DOS-Plus 1.0
: *2.25 10/85 | |
: | | |
-1986- 3.2 1/86 <-------| | |
: *4.00 4/86 | DR Concurrent DOS -->|---------------->|
: | | CCI Concur. DOS | |
: | | DOS 386 2.01 CCI Conc. DOS 28
-1987- : | | | | 5.0 1/87
3.3 4/87 <-------| | | | |
| 3.30 7/87 | | | |
| 3.31 11/87 | 1.12 10/87 | |
-1988- | | | | DR DOS |
| *2.11R | XDOS | 3.31 5/88 6.0 5/88
4.0 8/88 ------->| | | 2.01 5/88 3.32
| 4.00 12/88 | | | 3.40
-1989- : | | | | 3.41 1/89
: 4.01 4/89 | | 3.01 3/89 3.42
: *3.21R 9/89 | | | |
: | | | | *
-1990- : | | | | |
: *3.3R | | RxDOS 3.02 4/90 5.0 5/90
: | | | | | |
: | | | | | |
-1991- | | | | | | Novell Multiuser
5.0 5/91 5.00 7/91 | NSS-DOS | 3.03 3/91 DR DOS 5.11
| * | | | 3.04 7/91 |
| | | | | | ?------------------>|
-1992- | | | | | 3.05 2/92 6.0 3/92 IMS Multiuser DOS
| * | DOS/NT | R2 6.01 4/92 |
5.01 8/92 | | | | R3+R4 | :
| | | | | R5+R6 * :
-1993- | | | | | R7+R8 | |
* 6.00 3/93 | | | R9+R10 | 5.0
6.1 8/93 * (?) | | | 3.05 R11 8/93 | |
6.3 9/93? 6.20 9/93 | | | | 3.06 12/93 Novell DOS :
-1994- | 6.21 PTS-DOS | | | R2+R3 7.0 1/94 :
| 6.22 5/94 | | PD-DOS 7/94 | | R4+R5+R6 | :
| * |--> Paragon | Free-DOS 10/94 | | 3.06 R7 7/94 : IMS :
| | 6.51* 11/94 | A1 <---- DOS-C * | : |<------|
-1995- | | | | | A2 | | : | 7.0 2/95
7.0 1/95 | 7.0 7/95 | | A3 1/95 | 3.07 3/95 : | |
| *Windows 95 8/95 | | | | | | : REAL/32 9/95 |
| | | | | | | R2 : | |
-1996- | | | | | | | | : | |
| | | | | A4 | R3 : | |
| *Windows 95b 8/96 | | | * | (?) | * | 7.22 9/96
| | | | | | | | R4 OpenDOS | R2
-1997- | | | | | | | Datalight | 7.01 2/97 7.6 2/97 R3
| | | | | | | | R5 |------ | R4
| | | | | FreeDOS A5 10/97 | | | | | | R5
| | | | | *A5 11/97 | | R6 7.02 9/97 | 7.7 11/97 R6
-1998- | | | | | | | | | | | | |
*2000 4/98 | | | | B1 7/98 | | 3.07 R7 6/98 | | | 7.22 R7 6/98
| *Windows 98 | | | | | | DR-OpenDOS | | :
: | | | | B2 10/98 | | 7.02 | | :
-1999- : | | | | | | | | | 7.81 2/99 :
? - - - - - ->| | 2000(?) | B3 5/99 | | 7.03 3/99 | | :
: *Windows 98SE 2000 9/99 : | *<- - - - - 6.2 8/99 | | | | :
: | | : | B4 12/99 | | | | | :
-2000- : | | : | | | | | | | :
: | | : | | : | | | | :
: | | : | B5 8/00 | | | : *7.22 Gold
: *Windows ME | : | | Datalight ROM-DOS 7.1 | : :
-2001- : 02/21/2001 | |
: (-> notes) | |
: | | +------------------+
: | | |
-2002- : | | DR-DOS 7.01.01 7/02
: | | |
: | | |
: | | DR-DOS 7.01.02 7/02
: | | |
: | | |
: | | |
-2003- : Datalight ROM-DOS 7.1 | DR-DOS 7.01.03 1/03
: with many new i-tools | |
: 03/27/3003 | |
: | | DR-DOS 7.01.04 2/03
: | | |
: | | |
: | | Dr-DOS 7.01.05 2/03
: | | |
: | | |
: | | Dr-DOS 7.01.06 12/03
: | | |
: | | |
: | | |
: | |<-----------------------|
: | | |
-2004- B9 10/04 | Dr-DOS 8 |
| | (7.03+FAT32) |
B9sr1 12/04 | 03/29/2004 |
| | | |
-2005- | Dataligh ROM-DOS 7.1 rev. | Enhanced DR-DOS 7.01.07 3/05
01/25/2005 |
---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x---------x--
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 |
Notes:
______________________
* Datalight ROM-DOS: 7.1 is the kernel, newer releases has new tools.
mostly for networks and internet.
* Reportedly QDOS development was aided by original DRI tools used to
port CP/M-80 to different OEM platforms, SCP has also been an DRI source code
licensee of CP/M-80. I cannot prove this, but I have heard it from various
sources over the years. -Matthias
* MS-DOS 2.12 released in 1983 or 1984 was a special version for TI Pro.
* MS-DOS 2.25 released Oct '85 provided extended multilanguage support.
* MS-DOS 4.0 released Apr '86 was for Europe only, included basic
multitasking, and was quickly withdrawn.
* MS-DOS 2.11R released in 1988 was used as a ROM DOS for Tandy PC's.
* MS-DOS 3.21R released Sep '89 was used as a ROM DOS for laptops.
* I haven't been able to find a reference to DR-DOS 4.x, but the jump
from DR-DOS 3.x to DR-DOS 5.0 was too quick to have a 4.0 release.
* MS-DOS 3.3R released in 1990 was used as a ROM DOS for TI laptops.
* Russian MS-DOS 5.0: 1991-08-09
* Arabic MS-DOS 5.0: 1992-05-06
* Near the end of '92, DR DOS was sold to Novell Inc.
* Hebrew MS-DOS 5.0: 1993-06-03
* There was no PC DOS 6.0, the product name was IBM PC DOS 6.1
(1993-11-19) It reports itself as DOS 6.0 at API level, though.
-Matthias
* PTS-DOS 6.51 included S-DOS ("Source-DOS"?) which was the source for this
version of DOS.
* MS-DOS "6.22V" released 8/94 was for Japan only, and provided double byte
Kanji support.
* `Dissecting DOS' by Michael Podanoffsky published December 1994
(Addison-Wesley Pub Co; ISBN: 020162687X) featured a copy of RxDOS.
* MS-DOS 7.0 released 8/95 is the DOS in the original Windows 95.
* I have no idea when DR DOS code was licensed to IMS, but I assumed '91
because it was convenient.
* MS-DOS 7.10 released 8/96 is the DOS in Windows 95b (OSR2).
* `FreeDOS Kernel; An MS-DOS Emulator for Platform Independence and Embedded
Systems Development' by Pat Villani published 1996 (CMP Books; ISBN:
0879304367) provided a copy of DOS-C 0.91b. This is also where the name
"Free-DOS" was changed to "FreeDOS".
* Near the end of '96, Novell DOS (DR DOS) was sold to Caldera.
* RxDOS development looked like it came to a halt by Aug '99, and the code was
posted on the FreeDOS web site. However, it is now up again at
http://rxdos.sourceforge.net/
* The FreeDOS A5 released Nov '97 was the first modern FreeDOS distribution,
and was a re-release of the FreeDOS Alpha5.
* IBM PC-DOS 2000 released Apr '98 is actually DOS 7 Revision 1.
* I had thought MS-DOS 8.00 was the DOS in Windows 98 and "SE", but
lost@tmdcrew.zzn.com tells me it was still 7.10, like Windows 95b.
Matthias confirms this also
* Multiuser DOS GOLD Version 7.22 http://www.conctrls.com/
* In spring 1999 there have been rumours that Microsoft bought PC DOS 2000 from
IBM, I don't know if this is true only for binary licenses, source code
patches, or the full source code, and if the license would be exclusive or
not. -Matthias
* MS-DOS 8.00 is the DOS in Windows ME according to Millennium build 2348
(Developer's Release) using INT21 AX30 (lost@tmdcrew.zzn.com). Other releases
of Windows ME:
build 2332 - "Developer's Release 0"
build 2348 - "Developer's Release 1"
build 2380 - "Beta 1"
build 2420 - "Beta 2"
build 2499 - "Beta 3"
* Enhanced Dr-DOS and DR-DOS 7.01.01+ has been developed by Udo Kuhnt
<http://www.drdosprojects.de>
Missing
______________________
1. PTS-DOS history previous to 6.51 (http://www.phystechsoft.com/)
2. releases of Bluebird SuperDOS (http://www.bluebird.com/SuperDOS.htm)
3. CCI/Novell Multiuser DOS (V5.11 A-B 05/26/93) (V5.11 6 08/01/98) was
licensed from same code as IMS Multiuser DOS 5. To be added.
References:
______________________
- DR-DOS history by Matthias Paul <Matthias.Paul@post.rwth-aachen.de>
- Enhanced Dr-DOS history by Florian Xaver <flox@drdos.org>
- I am indebted to Matthias Paul for many other areas on this history.
- DR-DOS history on drdos.org
- MS-DOS and PC-DOS history by Lasse Jensen <Lasse_Jensen1@online.pol.dk>
- ash <bast6@mindspring.com> provided me with several release dates from boxed
sets of MS-DOS, PC-DOS and Novell DOS 7. Thanks!
- Steven E. Ehrbar <ehrbar@SoftHome.net> provided me with release dates for
Concurrent and Multiuser DOS, by Concurrent Controls Inc.
(http://www.conctrls.com/frames/support/general/y2k.htm). Steven
also helped me with releases for IMS REAL/32 (http://www.lii.com/)
- Florian X was able to provide a bit of origin history of Paragon
(http://www.paragon-gmbh.com/n_dos.htm), updated history of Datalight
and Dr-DOS/Enhanced Dr-DOS!
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