Product type OS Vendor Microsoft Release date 1991 Minimum CPU 8088 User interface Text Platform DOS Download count 1277 (102 for release) Downloads Download name Applications will be installed into C:\DOS unless changed in setup. The setup program will install and ask a few questions about your hardware and whether or not you want to install to floppy or hard disk. To Install: Insert the first disk into your PC or virtualization software and ensure your BIOS is set to boot from a floppy disk. When MS-DOS 5 was released the entire market had become dominated by IBM and compatible systems, so specific OEM versions of DOS for machines not using an IBM BIOS were not shipped as in prior releases, with the exception of the still-popular NEC PC-98 series of IBM-incompatible systems. This was also the version of DOS used in the OS/2 and Windows NT virtual DOS machine. This release of DOS was the last of the collaboration between Microsoft and IBM and as a result will be the last result where PC-DOS and MS-DOS are near-identical. Numerous bugs were noticed shortly after launch which lead to the 5.0a update. The memory management was rewritten to allow DOS to utilize the High Memory Area and Upper Memory Area to reduce its usage of conventional memory.
MS-DOS 5 also supported 2.88MB 3.5" floppy disks as well as hard disks up to 2GB in size. Microsoft QBasic also shipped in DOS 5 replacing GW-BASIC. A full screen text editor EDIT has replaced the former line editor EDLIN supplied since the early days of DOS. MS-DOS 5 introduced numerous new features and was a flagship release for Microsoft.
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