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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1990
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1991
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Capcom]], [[Micro Talent]], [[Rozner Labs]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1988
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Capcom]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | November 10, 2019
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Includes ''[[Street Fighter (video game)|Street Fighter]]'', ''[[Street Fighter II]]'', ''[[Mega Man (DOS video game)|Mega Man]]'', and ''[[Mega Man 3 (DOS video game)|Mega Man 3]]''.
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | Includes ''[[Street Fighter (video game)|Street Fighter]]'', ''[[Street Fighter II]]'', ''[[Mega Man (DOS video game)|Mega Man]]'', and ''[[Mega Man 3 (DOS video game)|Mega Man 3]]''.
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Media King Entertainment]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1998
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Philips POV Entertainment]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Philips POV Entertainment]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1994
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Mike Arnautov]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2003
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 2003
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[David R. Malmberg]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1993
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[David Platt]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1978
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1978
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Mike Arnautov]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1995
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[David Long]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1984
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| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | [[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Kevin Black]]<br />[[Will Crowther]], [[Don Woods]], [[Bob Wither]]
| style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; text-align:center" | 1987
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Revision as of 04:33, 9 October 2023

DOS logo.png
DOS
Developer IBM, Microsoft, SCP, various
Publisher IBM, Microsoft, SCP, various
Platforms x86
Released 1980-present
Added to
Museum
MS-DOS 3.3 (AGI Computer): February 7, 2021
FreeDOS 1.3: July 16, 2022

DOS stands for Disk Operating System.

History

Seattle Computer Products released 86-DOS in August 1980. It was licensed and then purchased by Microsoft.

Microsoft extended it into PC DOS for IBM, which was first released in August 1981, then further into MS-DOS, which was first released in November 1987.

After those releases, DOS became a common shorthand for those operating systems and those that are compatible with them.

Other notable DOS-compatible operating systems include Multiuser DOS, first released as Concurrent DOS (the third version of CP/M-86 with a PC-MODE module) in March 1984, and DR-DOS, first released in May 1988. These operating systems were Digital Research's successors to their popular CP/M operating system.

DOS continues to be developed as free and open-source software as FreeDOS, which was first released by Jim Hall and the FreeDOS team on January 12, 1998.

Retail games for DOS that are owned by the WEC Museum

Title Developer Release Notes
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers: The Adventures in Nimnul's Castle Riedel Software Productions 1990
Hare Raising Havoc BlueSky Software 1991
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis LucasArts 1993
Mega Man Rozner Labs 1990
Mega Man 3 Rozner Labs 1991
Street Fighter Capcom, Micro Talent, Rozner Labs 1988
Street Fighter II Rozner Labs 1993
Street Fighter Series Capcom 1993 Includes Street Fighter, Street Fighter II, Mega Man, and Mega Man 3.
Tetris Gold Professional Media King Entertainment 1998
Voyeur Philips POV Entertainment 1994

Digital games for DOS that are owned by the WEC Museum

Title Developer Release Notes
370 Point Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, Paul Munoz-Colman 1993
770 Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, Mike Arnautov 2003
Adventure in Humongous Cave Will Crowther, Don Woods, David R. Malmberg 1993
Adventure 2.5 Will Crowther, Don Woods 1995
Adventure 3 Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Platt 1978
Adventure 4 Will Crowther, Don Woods, Mike Arnautov 1995
Adventure 6 Will Crowther, Don Woods, David Long 1984
Beneath a Steel Sky Revolution Software 1994
Colossal Cave Adventure Will Crowther, Don Woods, Kevin Black
Will Crowther, Don Woods, Bob Wither
1987
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis LucasArts 1993
Space Quest V: The Next Mutation Dynamix 1993
Teenagent Metropolis Software House 1995