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Windows 7: MS-DOS is 30 years old today
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27 Jul 2011
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Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1 Bay Area Peninsula |
MS-DOS is 30 years old today
Quote: Thirty years ago, on July 27 1981, Microsoft bought the rights for QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) from Seattle Computer Products (SCP) for $25,000. QDOS, otherwise known as 86-DOS, was designed by SCP to run on the Intel 8086 processor, and was originally thrown together in just two months for a 0.1 release in 1980. Meanwhile, IBM had planned on powering its upcoming Personal Computer with CP/M-86, which had been the standard OS for Intel 8086 and 8080 architectures at the time, but a deal could not be struck with CP/M’s developer, Digital Research. IBM then approached Microsoft, which already had a few years of experience under its belt with M-DOS, BASIC, and other important tools — and as you can probably tell from the landscape of the computer world today, the IBM/Microsoft partnership worked out rather well indeed. Source Pictures
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| OS Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
CPU INTEL Core i5-750 Quad-Core 3.37GHz
Motherboard ASUS P7P55D
Memory KINGSTON 4GB (2 x 2GB) HyperX PC3-12800 DDR3 1600MHz CL8
Graphics Card MSI N240GT-MD1G/D5 GeForce GT 240 1GB 128-bit GDDR5
Monitor(s) Displays Samsung SyncMaster B2430H 24"
Screen Resolution 1920 x 1080
PSU ANTEC TruePower New TP-550, 80 PLUS, 550W
Case ANTEC Three Hundred Illusion
Cooling COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus, 4 x 120mm 1 x 140mm Noctua's
Hard Drives Intel X25M Gen2 80GB, SEAGATE 500GB Barracuda® 7200.12, SATA 3 Gb/s, 7200 RPM, 16MB cache
Internet Speed 20 + Mbps
Antivirus Avast
Browser Opera
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27 Jul 2011
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Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 and Mac OS X 10.8.3 |
Wow, it just shows you how far we have come in the past 30 years. Ms-Dos disks are still in use today. Will Windows 7 still be relivent as Dos was? I do not think so. Perhaps people will still be running XP in 30 years. lol.
It also make you think how slow things have changed in the past 10 years. People are still running Windows XP which is 10 years old. Many of those PC from 2001 can run Windows 7 but PCs from 1991 could never run XP. I think the big bang in computers is over and the amount of change will be much slower. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Asus
OS Windows 7 Pro x64 SP1 and Mac OS X 10.8.3
CPU Intel Core i7-3820 Sandy Bridge-E at 4.75 GHz
Motherboard ASUS Rampage IV Extreme
Memory 8 x Corsair 8GB DDR3 64 GB Kit @1866 Overclocked @2000
Graphics Card GTX 580 and MSI R6870
Sound Card HDMI on GPU and ACL898
Monitor(s) Displays 32" Sony EX-500 120Hz
Screen Resolution 1920x1080P
Keyboard HP Wireless Elite Keyboard
Mouse HP Wireless Elite Mouse
PSU Corsair Professional Series Gold AX850
Case Corsair 800D
Cooling Corsair H80 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Hard Drives 1 x Corsair Force Series GT CSSD-F60GBGT-BK (OS)
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 750GB (Raid 0)
1 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata III 1TB (Media)
2 x Western Digital Caviar Black Sata II 640GB (Raid 0)
Internet Speed Cable, VisionTek Bigfoot Killer 2100 Gaming Network Card
Other Info 4 x GELID Solutions FN-TX12-15 120mm Case Fan with Superior Temperature Control
1 x Corsair 140mm Case Fan
1 x SilverStone FP55B Aluminum front panel 5.25" to a 3.5" bay converter
1 x Ultra Card Reader
1 x Sony Blu-ray Burner BD-5300S-0B
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28 Jul 2011
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Quote: Originally Posted by Beta  Wow, it just shows you how far we have come in the past 30 years. Ms-Dos disks are still in use today. Will Windows 7 still be relivent as Dos was? I do not think so. Perhaps people will still be running XP in 30 years. lol.
It also make you think how slow things have changed in the past 10 years. People are still running Windows XP which is 10 years old. Many of those PC from 2001 can run Windows 7 but PCs from 1991 could never run XP. I think the big bang in computers is over and the amount of change will be much slower. Gee, I never actually thought about that fact! Thank you 32 bit processor architecture, for lasting such a long time that every software had and has to be written to work with it.  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number ASUS
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU AMD Athlon 240 II @ 2.8-4.004 ghz
Motherboard M4A78LT-M LE
Memory SuperTalent 4gb DDR3
Graphics Card ATI Radeon 3000HD
Screen Resolution 1440*900
Case Re-modded Dell Dimension 4550
Cooling Vantec 92mm Tornado x2
Other Info It looks pretty.
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28 Jul 2011
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DOS is actually older than me.....
So what happens when it turns 50? Does it have a mid-life crisis and crash and needs to be rebooted?  | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number ASUS
OS Windows 7 Ultimate x64
CPU AMD Athlon 240 II @ 2.8-4.004 ghz
Motherboard M4A78LT-M LE
Memory SuperTalent 4gb DDR3
Graphics Card ATI Radeon 3000HD
Screen Resolution 1440*900
Case Re-modded Dell Dimension 4550
Cooling Vantec 92mm Tornado x2
Other Info It looks pretty.
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28 Jul 2011
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#5 | |
Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit In a house with a cat trying to kill me |
Oh yes, that brings back memories....Damn I'm old! | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Dell Hell oh Well
OS Windows 7 Home Premium 32 bit
CPU Intel Core 2 Duo 2.93GHz
Memory Not much with my ADHD
Graphics Card ATI Radeon HD 4350
Monitor(s) Displays I have one...It's bright. A 19 inch CRT actually.
Keyboard It's 10 years old and amazingly still works
Mouse Same deal with the mouse, 10 yrs old, if it ain't broke...
Case Don't get on my case...man :D
Cooling I have an Air Conditioner & Diet Pepsi
Hard Drives 250 GB Main Drive, 2 - 1 TB Externals, various FD's.
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28 Jul 2011
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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1 Hertfordshire |
Quote: Originally Posted by Borg 386 Oh yes, that brings back memories....Damn I'm old! It certainly does. We got one of the first IBM PCs mainly to use the 123 (I think it was called) spreadsheet. Seems pathetic now but at the time, wow... 
Last edited by kado897; 28 Jul 2011 at 06:54 AM..
Reason: It was 1-2-3
| | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Hewlett-Packard/G62-107SA Notebook
OS Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit 7601 Multiprocessor Free Service Pack 1
CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 330 @ 2.13GHz
Motherboard Hewlett-Packard 1425
Memory 8 GB DDR3
Graphics Card Intel(R) HD Graphics
Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Builtin
Screen Resolution 1366 x 768 x 32 bits (4294967296 colors) @ 60 Hz
Mouse Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000
Hard Drives 250 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive 7200 rpm
2TB Seagate GoFlex USB 2 Drive
1TB Iomega Prestige USB 2 Drive
1.5TB Iomega Prestige USB 2 Drive (Samsung)
1TB Iomega NAS.
Internet Speed 60 Mbs download 3 Mbs upload
Antivirus Norton 360
Browser Chrome
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28 Jul 2011
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#7 | |
W7 64bit Rural Upstate NY, USA |
Microsoft's first sale was to Tandy for the TRS series. My model 3 (with the FULL 64K of ram) had MS/Tandy Dos, partly in rom, partly on disk.
In the interests of historical accuracy, gates is not the self made man everybody wants to think.
He comes from a very well connected old money family and those connections are what got him in the door at Tandy and IBM where nobody else could.
Last edited by Magron; 28 Jul 2011 at 10:31 AM..
| | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number self built
OS W7 64bit
CPU AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition @3.9GHz
Motherboard ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AMD 890FX AM3
Memory 8GB Corsair Vengeance 8GB PC15000 DDR3 1866MHz CL9
Graphics Card ASUS ENGTX 460 1GB DDR5
Sound Card ...On MB nvidia
Monitor(s) Displays ..Samsung T260
Screen Resolution 1440 x 900
Keyboard walmart
Mouse Kensington Expert Mouse "gods own trackball"
PSU 750 W
Case minitower, it's got a cool spider design on the front
Cooling all the fans i can cram in, water cooled cpu
Hard Drives 2x WD Caviar 320GB SATA-3G HD 7200/16MB/SATA-6G Raid 1
Internet Speed 30 Mb/s
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