DR DOS 5.x

DR DOS is an MS-DOS compatible operating system from Digital Research that evolved from their earlier CP/M-86 based products Concurrent DOS and DOS Plus.



Release notes

Version "4" was skipped to avoid being associated with the disaster called IBM-PC DOS 4.0 and MS-DOS 4.0.

New features include ViewMAX, a GEM-based GUI file management shell, the BatteryMAX power management system, bundled disk-caching software, and HMA and UMB memory use that frees up conventional 640k.

Notice that this was released in May, 1990 well before MS-DOS 5.0. Microsoft was scrambling to get similar features in to MS-DOS 5.0, that they released in June 1991.

Product type
OS
Release date
1990
Minimum CPU
8088
User interface
Text
Platform
DOS
Download count
56 (4 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Digital Research DR DOS 5.0 (12-13-1990) [Spanish] (5.25-360k) 5.0 (12-13-1990) Spanish 438.35KB 0
Digital Research DR DOS 5.0 (2-1-1991) (Premier Innovations OEM) (3.5-1.44mb) 5.0 (2-1-1991) (Premier Innovations OEM) English 774.87KB 1
Digital Research DR DOS 5.0 (6-15-1990) (5.25-360k) 5.0 (6-15-1990) English 426.63KB 0
Digital Research DR DOS 5.0 (6-15-1990) (Highscreen OEM) [German] (5.25-360k) 5.0 (6-15-1990) (Highscreen OEM) German 1.24MB 1
Digital Research DR DOS 5.0 (8-14-1990) (3.5-720k) 5.0 (8-14-1990) English 429.04KB 1
Digital Research DR DOS 5.0 (8-14-1990) (5.25-360k) 5.0 (8-14-1990) English 427.91KB 0
Digital Research DR DOS 5.0 (8-22-1990) (Highscreen OEM) [German] (5.25-360k) 5.0 (8-22-1990) (Highscreen OEM) German 1.06MB 1

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