MS-DOS 4.01
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| Version of MS-DOS | |
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| Version | 4.01 |
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| Codename | |
| Preliminary name | |
| Latest build | |
| Release date | 1988-11 |
| Support end | |
MS-DOS 4.01 is a version of MS-DOS, released in 1988-11. It introduced the following new features and changes:
- Support for EGA and VGA display adapters.
- Support for FAT16 partitions larger than 32 MB.
- Support for LIM / EMS standard (driver
EMM386.SYS, access to additional memory on IBM PC AT-386 and higher), which allowed individual parts of MS DOS to load into additional memory. - Full-fledged support of the Russian language.
- Improving the Select installation program. The process of installation and configuration ois greatly simplified. It automatically creates the appropriate
CONFIG.SYSandAUTOEXEC.BATfiles. - The introduction of a new
MEMcommand, which allows you to analyze the current memory configuration. - Four countries are included in the list of supported countries.
- Graphic printing.
- Various new features in existing commands:
TREE,DELETE,MODE,APPEND,FASTOPEN,NLSPUNC,ATTRIB,FDISK,REPLACE,BACKUP,GRAFTABL,SELECT,COUNTRY,GRAPHICS. - Improved system drivers, including:
ANSI.SYS,DRIVER.SYS,DISPLAY.SYS,PRINTER.SYS. - MS-DOS shell.
