With open software specifications and the possibility of software licensing, new opportunities arose for software tools that then became the de facto standard, such as DOS for operating systems, but also various proprietary word processing and spreadsheet programs.

The last version of MultiMate was packaged with many of these add-on programs under the product name " MultiMate Advantage " to compete with other word processor software of the day, especially IBM DisplayWrite for DOS, which Multimate International developers saw as their main competition in the business market, and to a lesser extent WordPerfect, the DOS incarnation of Microsoft Word and the Samna word processor, which had its roots in another office word processing computer.

WordStar is a word processor application, published by MicroPro International, originally written for the CP / M operating system but later ported to DOS, that enjoyed a dominant market share during the early-to mid-1980s.

XyWrite is a word processor for DOS and Windows modeled on the ATEX mainframe program.

Moreover, in the years since the last major XyWrite release, WordPerfect had cemented its hold on the DOS word processor market.

Gabi Delgado also recorded two albums as DAF / DOS (' Dos ' here referring to the Spanish word for ' two ').

The advent of the personal computer, MS DOS, and general purpose word processing software saw the demise of the dedicated word processor, and the division was closed.

Very few fit the strict definition of acronym, which requires the abbreviation to be pronounced as a single word, as in DOS.

WPS started as a word processor under DOS in 1988.

Here are some instances of collective behavior: the frequent use of the word, " like ," among adolescent girls, the national debates in Canada and the U. S. about whether to ratify the Kyoto protocols, a change from 50 % market saturation by the WordPerfect 5. 1 for DOS word processing program to the even more widespread use of Microsoft Word, and the Esperanto movement for a neutral international language.

The underlying software platform was Microsoft's 16-bit Hand Held Operating System ( Handheld DOS or HHDOS ), along with word processing, calendar, database, communication and spreadsheet software.

Samna Word was a competitor in the DOS market for word processors in the late 80s.

Sprint was a powerful and programmable text-based word processor for DOS, first published by Borland in 1987.

Because of the limitations of the Intel 80286 processor, OS / 2 1. x could run only one DOS program at a time, and did this in a way that allowed the DOS program to have total control over the computer.

In contrast, OS / 2 2. 0 could benefit from the virtual 8086 mode of the Intel 80386 processor in order to create a much safer virtual machine in which to run DOS programs.

Several shortcomings such as the inability to access the BIOS or DOS calls due to inability to switch back to real mode without resetting the processor prevented widespread usage.

In DOS memory management, extended memory refers to memory above the first megabyte of address space in an IBM PC or compatible with an 80286 or later processor.

Later, the expression became associated with software-only solutions requiring the Intel 80386 processor, for example Quarterdeck's QEMM, Qualitas ' 386 < sup > MAX </ sup > or the default EMM386 in MS-DOS, PC DOS and DR-DOS.

In 1983 Olivetti introduced the M24, a clone of the IBM PC using DOS and the Intel 8086 processor ( at 8 MHz ) instead of the Intel 8088 used by IBM ( at 4. 77 MHz ).

' Merge ' was originally developed to run DOS / Windows 3. 1 under UNIX System V Release 2 on an AT & T 6300 + personal computer that contained an Intel 80286 processor.

Virtual DOS machines normally rely on the virtual 8086 mode of the Intel 80386 processor, which allows real mode 8086 software to run in a controlled environment by catching and forwarding to the normal operating system ( as exceptions ) all operations which involve accessing protected hardware.

DOS extenders were initially developed in the 1980s following the introduction of the Intel 80286 processor ( and later expanded upon with the Intel 80386 ), to cope with the memory limitations of MS-DOS and its derivatives.

* Virtual DMA Services, Microsoft standard that enables DOS drivers for bus master devices to obtain the physical address of memory for DMA access when the processor runs in virtual 8086 mode.

Each DTS CD-ROM contains a DOS program that the processor uses to play back the soundtrack, allowing system improvements or bug fixes to be added easily.

The DOS version required a minimum 286 processor, 640KB RAM, and VGA graphics chipset.

Since the ousting of former Federal Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević in October 2000, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( DOS ) coalition government has implemented stabilization measures and embarked on an aggressive market reform program.

Since the ousting of former Federal Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević in October 2000, the Democratic Opposition of Serbia ( DOS ) coalition government has implemented stabilization measures and embarked on an aggressive market reform program.

In time, and as the industry matured, the market for personal computers standardized around IBM PC compatibles running DOS, and later Windows.

While Concurrent DOS continued to evolve in various flavours over the years to eventually become Multiuser DOS, it was not specifically tailored for the desktop market and too expensive for single-user applications.

At around this same time, the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, Microsoft's Windows operating environment started to become popular, and Microsoft's competitor Digital Research started to recover a share of the DOS press and DOS market with DR-DOS.

The most recent retail release was PC DOS 2000 – released from Austin in 1998 – which found its niche in the embedded software market and elsewhere.

The program filled a required niche in the market, as DOS shipped with only a command-line file manager, until the generally unsuccessful DOS shell that was provided with MS-DOS 4. 0.

In the DOS era, Ichitaro had a considerable market share along with other rivals such as Matsu by Kanri Kougaku Kenkyujyo.

Revenues from Q & A, and from Symantec's early launch into the international marketplace, combined with Turner Hall Publishing, generated the market presence and scale that enabled Symantec to make its first merger / acquisition, in February 1987, that of BreakThrough Software, maker of the TimeLine project management software for DOS.

By 1989 this merger was very successful — product group morale was high, TimeLine development continued apace, and the increased sales and marketing efforts applied built the TimeLine into the clear market lead in PC project management software on DOS.

CA-Sort's superior performance ( mostly on the DOS / VSE computing platform ) and modest price, combined with the sales acumen of Charles Wang, led to rapid growth in the large and lucrative North American market.

Helping fuel that growth was CA's entry to the DOS / VSE enterprise storage management market with CA-Dynam / T, CA-Dynam / D and CA-Dynam / FI.

Its sales ( often " wrap & roll " financial deals ) helped bring CA enough revenue and market share, especially from existing customers converting from DOS / VSE ( z / VSE today ) to OS / MVS ( z / OS today ), that CA was eventually able to acquire its archrival, UCCEL Corporation, in 1987.

Eventually the " Towns " lost much of its uniqueness by adding a DOS / V ( PC Clone + DOS with native Japanese language support ) compatibility mode switch, until Fujitsu finally discontinued making FM Towns specific hardware and software and moved to focus on the IBM PC clones that many Japanese manufacturers who previously were not players in the PC market were building by the mid to late 1990s.

In 1998, with DOS utilities market all but collapsed, Quarterdeck was acquired by Symantec ( the Norton Utilities company ) who discontinued support of certain Quarterdeck products, e. g., Mosaic, or integrated them into larger offerings, e. g., CleanSweep, which became part of Norton SystemWorks.

NEC's PC98 series computers were also dominant in Japan when the FM Towns Marty was released, making it difficult to break out before the DOS / V invasion took control of the market.