The Life of MS-DOS

Re:The Life of MS-DOS by rascul on Sunday February 13, 2022 @02:47PM (#30324934)

The article mentions MS-DOS 6.3 as the latest standalone version, but I can't find anything about it anywhere.

PC-DOS had a 6.3, but as far as I know, MS-DOS only went to 6.22 before going to 7 (which was not shipped standalone).

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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by jmclnx on Sunday February 13, 2022 @04:52PM (#30326028)

IBM came out with PC-DOS 7.0 around 2000, it had fixes for the Year 2000 plus REX language. I still a copy of it somewhere.

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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by mobilio on Sunday February 13, 2022 @03:10PM (#30325133)

I also note that.

Probably typo mistake from author?

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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by ForOldHack on Sunday February 13, 2022 @06:23PM (#30326629)

Again, I was there. No. Microsoft stopped updating MS-DOS 6.0 at 6.2.2. I never saw DOS 6.3 ( There was a PC-DOS 6.3, which I think was unchanged except for "Disk Compression" . Next thing was the DOS 7.0 used to boot Windows 95 FE.

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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by jbverschoor on Sunday February 13, 2022 @10:16PM (#30328024)

Yeah 6.3 does not ring a bell here either

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Re:The Life of MS-DOS by lproven on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:28AM (#30330758)

I saw that, too. I think it's a mistake.

MS-DOS ended at 6.22.

PC DOS started to significantly _diverge_ from MS-DOS thereafter, with PC DOS 6.3, then 7, then 7.01, then 7.1.

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