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Operating the System, Version 2

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MS-DOS and PC-DOS

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The 2.0 and 2.1 versions of PC-DOS and MS-DOS differ in many ways from the previous versions. This is primarily a result of the introduction of IBM’s XT (for extended), which is equipped with a fixed disk. We shall return to this subject in the next chapter, on page 111.

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© 1985 Pim Oets

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Oets, P. (1985). Operating the System, Version 2. In: MS-DOS and PC-DOS. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08134-9_5

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