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DR-DOS
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DR-DOS is short for
Digital Research
DOS
, an
MS-DOS
compatible
operating system
produced by
Digital Research
, the makers of
CP/M
. DR-DOS was eventually bought by
Novell
who renamed it
Novell DOS
.
Caldera
later bought the product from
Novell
and renamed it
OpenDOS
before deciding to call it DR-DOS again.
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Short for
Digital Research
Disk Operating System
, DR-DOS was one of several competing versions of DOS available on
IBM
compatible
personal computer
s in the early 1990s. With the cost of
RAM
decreasing, many PCs were being equipped with more than the 640KB that DOS would recognize, so DR-DOS's superior handling of memory beyond the 640KB barrier made it an appealing and less expensive alternative to other versions of DOS.
Since DR-DOS competed head-to-head against
Microsoft
's
MS DOS
, Microsoft intentionally sabotaged the new version of their own flagship graphical
operating system
,
Windows 3.1
, so it would refuse to work properly on machines which used DR-DOS. This organized
FUD
attack arguably led to the disappearance of Digital Research from the desktop operating system market, and would definitely not be the last FUD attack in Microsoft's battle for
market share
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Sun Feb 18 2001 at 5:40:48
DR DOS is
pronounced
'dee are doss'
not
'doctor doss'.
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