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became the norm, "MS-DOS" became the generic version which could run on most of them. This generic version of MS-DOS, however, could not run on the older non-IBM-compatible machines like the Z-100.
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At the time Microsoft's MS-DOS was not specifically geared to any specific hardware platform, but could be tailored to run on most any system as long as it used a
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of MS-DOS geared to a specific non-IBM-compatible OEM hardware—among them Zenith's Z-DOS. Only later, when almost 100% IBM-compatible
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among others) microprocessor. In order to achieve this, MS-DOS, like CP/M, relied on a platform-specific (DOS-)
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Index

Developer
Microsoft
Written in
PL/M
MS-DOS
Available in
English
Package manager
Intel 8088
Zenith Z-100
Default
user interface

Command-line interface
License
Proprietary
OEM
Microsoft
MS-DOS
Zenith Z-100
8086-family
Intel 8088
IBM PC
8086
CP/M
8080
8085
Z80
BIOS
PC DOS
dozens of other OEM versions
clones

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