Latest version of DOS....

[boxergirl]

I'm just wondering what the latest version of DOS is. A friend of mine says 6.22 is the latest. For some reason, I thought 7 was the latest. I see references to "7" on the web. Anyone know? And if 6.22 isn't the latest, can you provide a website link so I can prove it to him? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Thanks...

[Nathan]

I believe it's 7.1

[BBA]

For MS-DOS its 6.22, but there were other DOS's out. I recall a DOS 7, maybe PC-DOS 7 or something, not a microsoft product. The WIN9x DOS is version 7, but not officially.

Kinda confusing...

BBA

[Dominus]

to my knowledge, the latest version was MS-DOS 8.3. I don't think it was marketed though, probably just a developers version

[ridefree]

BBA is correct so far as MS-Dos is concerned.
Win95 has what is euphamistically called version 7, but it is fairly useless. Most of the functionality of Dos6.22 is missing.
If you have Dos6.22, you can run most of the executables under Win95/Dos simply by copying the extracted files onto your HDD.

I still like to use Dos and it has saved me any number of times with Win95. I dual boot and utilize my config and autoexec for mouse, CDRom, and network card when booting to Dos. Having the realmode drivers there doesn't seem to cause any problems and Win95 is running fine in 32bit mode. Just watch out that you don't mangle any long filenames.

I have picked up IBM PC-Dos 2000, but have yet to load it. It is actually PC-Dos7 with Y2k compliance. The main reason I picked it up is that it supports PCMCIA, APM, and docking support for my laptop. None of this is natively supported by Dos6.22 I still don't know if it has the 512mb partition limit.

If you want more info, I will be tempting fate and reformatting a perfectly good working HDD this weekend. Will know more by Tuesday.

[boxergirl]

Thanks.. I truly didn't know there were other 'versions' of DOS... Or clones so to speak.

Thank you.