Microsoft DOS History & TOP 10 COMMAND PAGES

Microsoft DOS HistoryYear Event
1981 MS-DOS 1.0 was released August, 1981.
1982 MS-DOS 1.25 was released August, 1982.
1983 MS-DOS 2.0 was released March, 1983.
1984 Microsoft introduces MS-DOS 3.0 for the IBM PC AT and MS-DOS 3.1 for networks.
1986 MS-DOS 3.2 was released April, 1986.
1987 MS-DOS 3.3 was released April, 1987.
1988 MS-DOS 4.0 was released July, 1988.
1988 MS-DOS 4.01 was released November, 1988.
1991 MS-DOS 5.0 was released June, 1991.
1993 MS-DOS 6.0 was released August, 1993.
1993 MS-DOS 6.2 was released November, 1993
1994 MS-DOS 6.21 was released March, 1994
1994 MS-DOS 6.22 was released April, 1994



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DOS TOP 10 COMMANDS

Below is a listing of the top 10 MS-DOS commands most commonly used and that you will most likely use during a normal DOS session.
1. cd
2. dir
3. copy
4. del
5. edit
6. move
7. ren (rename)
8. deltree
9. cls
10. format




TOP 10 COMMAND PAGES

Below is a listing of the top 10 MS-DOS command pages by the amount of times they have been accessed on the Computer Hope server.

1. fdisk
2. format
3. copy
4. xcopy
5. dir
6. cd
7. deltree
8. net
9. Ansi
10. ping