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Congrats MS-DOS!

I may not remember correctly, but wasn't it that MS-DOS 4.0 was replaced by 4.01 two days later or so?

Also, typo below the MS-DOS 2.0 picture: It should be 5 1/4" (the floppy with the half one was 3 1/2").




You can't really tell from the picture, but actually per the original page it was actually 8-inch. You see, the MS-DOS disk is not for the IBM PC, but for the SCP 8086 card based S-100 system SCP 86-DOS was originally developed on before MS bought it. Anyone else remember it?


Yea, the problem was the original 4.0 release was buggy.


The entire 4.0 release was considered pretty sub-par - it was common practice to remain on version 3.3 until 5.0 was released.




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