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Originally, MS-DOS was not available directly in retail, and was instead distributed by OEMs who licensed it from Microsoft. The manufacturer would receive an OEM Adaptation Kit, which would then be used to build a custom version of MS-DOS with support for a specific machine. However, as the market settled on close to 100% IBM-compatible clones, Microsoft eventually started offering a generic IBM-compatible version of MS-DOS. At first, the generic version was still distributed by the OEMs who bulk-ordered it from Microsoft, although eventually Microsoft started selling MS-DOS directly in retail starting with [[MS-DOS 5]]. | Originally, MS-DOS was not available directly in retail, and was instead distributed by OEMs who licensed it from Microsoft. The manufacturer would receive an OEM Adaptation Kit, which would then be used to build a custom version of MS-DOS with support for a specific machine. However, as the market settled on close to 100% IBM-compatible clones, Microsoft eventually started offering a generic IBM-compatible version of MS-DOS. At first, the generic version was still distributed by the OEMs who bulk-ordered it from Microsoft, although eventually Microsoft started selling MS-DOS directly in retail starting with [[MS-DOS 5]]. | ||
The standalone MS-DOS product was eventually discontinued with the release of [[Windows 95]], which integrated MS-DOS into Windows itself in a move that was the subject of a major lawsuit from Caldera, the developer of the competing [[DR DOS]] operating system. The last version, | The standalone MS-DOS product was eventually discontinued with the release of [[Windows 95]], which [[MS-DOS in Windows 9x|integrated]] MS-DOS into [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] itself in a move that was the subject of a major lawsuit from Caldera, the developer of the competing [[DR DOS]] operating system. The last version, MS-DOS 8, was released in 2000 as a part of [[Windows Me]]. | ||
A port of the 16-bit MS-DOS was made for 8-bit MSX computers known as [[MSX-DOS]]. MSX-DOS is based on the MS-DOS 1.25 kernel and uses the same filesystem. | A port of the 16-bit MS-DOS was made for 8-bit MSX computers known as [[MSX-DOS]]. MSX-DOS is based on the MS-DOS 1.25 kernel and uses the same filesystem. | ||