2008 Oct 18
| Dos Version |
Date | Floppy Sizes |
Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 1981 Aug | 5.25" | Original from IBM. |
| 1.1 | 1982 May | 5.25" | Adds support for double-sided floppy disks. |
| 1.25 | 198? ??? | 5.25" | Released under Microft label, same as version 1.1. |
| 2.0 | 1983 Jan | 5.25" | MS for Zenith Z-100 for IBM-XT. Rewrite. Support for 10MB hard drives, subdirectories and 360K diskettes. |
| 2.1 | 1984 Mar | 5.25" | Supports PC Jr. |
| 2.11 | 1984 ??? | 5.25" | Supports non-English languages and alternate date formats. |
| 3.0 | 1984 ??? | 5.25" | Adds support for 1.2MB diskettes and disk sizes over 10MB. |
| 3.1 | 1984 Nov | 5.25" | Adds MS networks support. |
| 3.2 | 1986 Jan | 5.25" | Adds support for 720K disks. |
| 3.25 | 198? ??? | 5.25" | ?? |
| 3.3 | 1987 ??? | 5.25" | Compaq version. Adds support for 1.44MB diskettes and multiple 32MB disk partitions. |
| 3.31 | 1987 Nov | 5.25" | Introduced by Compaq. Supports drives larger than 32MB. |
| 4.0 | 1988 ??? | 5.25" 3.5" |
Adds shell menu interface and disk partitions over 32MB and graphical/mouse interface. |
| 4.01 | 1988 Nov | 5.25" 3.5"? |
Not sold separately from computer. |
| 5.0 | 1991 Jun | 5.25" 3.5" |
Adds full screen editor, undelete, unformat, and task swapping.
Replaces GW-Basic with QBasic. |
| 5.0a | 199? ??? | 5.25" 3.5" |
Termed "Y2K compliant with minor issues" by Microsoft. |
| 6.0 | 1993 Mar | 5.25" 3.5" |
Includes DoubleSpace disk compression. A 3-Pack version of this was also sold for use on three PCs. System requirements: MS-DOS 2.11 or later, OS/2, or an operating system compatible with MS-DOS 2.11 or later. Personal computer with 8088 or higher processor. 512K of RAM. |
| 6.2 | 1993 Nov | 5.25" 3.5" |
A special edition bundled with "Dummies" book. |
| 6.21 | 1994 Feb | 5.25" 3.5" |
Removed DoubleSpace under court order. |
| 6.22 | 1994 Jun | 5.25" 3.5" |
Bundled with "MS-DOS for Dummies" book. You must be running MS-DOS 2.11 or compatible and later to install it. |
| 7.0 | 1995 ??? | 5.25" 3.5" |
Windows95. Adds support for long file names. |
| 7.1 | 1998 ??? | 5.25" 3.5" |
Windows98 |
2005-2008