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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Originally MS-DOSwas designed to be an operating system that could run on any 8086-familycomputer. It competed with other Operating Systems written for x86 basedcomputers, such as CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal. Each computer would have itsown distinct hardware and its own version of MS-DOS, similar to thesituation that existed for CP/M, and with MS-DOS emulating the samesolution as CP/M to adapt for different hardware platforms. So therewere many different versions of 'MS-DOS' for different hardware. But thegreater speed attainable by direct control of hardware was of particularimportance, especially when running computer games. So very soon anIBM-compatible architecture became the goal, and before long all8086-family computers closely emulated IBM's hardware, and a only singleversion of MS-DOS for a fixed hardware platform was all that was neededfor the market. This version is the version of MS-DOS that is discussedhere, as all other versions of MS-DOS died out with their system. Oneversion of such a DOS (Z-DOS) is mentioned here, but there were dozensmore.VDM Verlag, Dudweiler Landstraße 99, 66123 Saarbrücken 116 pp. Englisch.