86-DOS

86- DOS was an operating system of Seattle Computer Products (SCP ) for the microprocessor Intel 8086th

In the development of the operating system called QDOS ( "quick and dirty operating system" ), but was changed in 1980 86- DOS, as SCP began to forgive the operating system license.

QDOS 1980 written by Tim Paterson for the then newly released CPU, because the company needed a Seattle Computer Products 8086 operating system to its 8086 CPU board - which had also been developed by Tim Paterson - for sale can. CP/M-86, the 8086 version of CP / M, was only in January 1982 its market introduction, so without further ado QDOS was developed.

It's CP / M very similar, as some functions have been taken directly from it, but also offers some improvements to the file management, especially the use of the FAT file system.

86- DOS was acquired in 1981 by Microsoft and developed for MS -DOS. In the 1980s and early 1990s, MS- DOS was (or very similar PC DOS) by the great success of the IBM PC and its successors and replicas of the world's most widely used operating system.

The 86- DOS command set is included in the list of command line commands ( Microsoft).

• DOS operating system
• Proprietary software
• Historic software