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PTS-DOS

{{short description|Computer operating system for x86 processors}}

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File:PTS-DOS 6.51CD.jpg PTS/DOS 6.51CD & S/DOS 1.0]]

PTS-DOS (aka PTS/DOS) is a disk operating system, a DOS clone, developed in Russia by PhysTechSoft and Paragon Technology Systems.

History and versions{{anchor|6.40|6.50|6.51|6.60|6.65|6.70|2000|7.00|32}}

PhysTechSoft was formed in 1991 in Moscow, Russia by graduates and members of MIPT, informally known as PhysTech. At the end of 1993, PhysTechSoft released the first commercially available PTS-DOS as PTS-DOS v6.4. The version numbering followed MS-DOS version numbers, as Microsoft released MS-DOS 6.2 in November 1993.

In 1995, some programmers left PhysTechSoft and founded Paragon Technology Systems. They took source code with them and released their own version named PTS/DOS 6.51CD as well as S/DOS 1.0 ("Source DOS"), a stripped down open-source version. According to official PhysTechSoft announcements, these programmers violated both copyright laws and Russian military laws, as PTS-DOS was developed in close relationship with Russia's military and thus may be subject to military secrets law.

PhysTechSoft continued development on their own and released PTS-DOS v6.6 somewhere between and presented PTS-DOS v6.65 at the CeBIT exhibition in 1997. The next version from PhysTechSoft, formally PTS/DOS Extended Version 6.70 was labeled PTS-DOS 2000 and is still being distributed as a last 16-bit PTS-DOS system, {{As of|2007|lc=on}}.

Paragon continued their PTS-DOS line and released Paragon DOS Pro 2000 (also known and labeled in some places as PTS/DOS Pro 2000). According to Paragon, this was the last version and all development since then ceased. Moreover, this release contained bundled source code of older PTS-DOS v6.51.

Later, PhysTechSoft continued developing PTS-DOS and finally released PTS-DOS 32, formally known as PTS-DOS v7.0, which added support for the FAT32 file system.

PTS-DOS is certified by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Commands

The following list of commands are supported by PTS-DOS 2000 Pro.

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=Exclusive commands=

== UNINSTALL ==

This command is specific to PTS/DOS 2000.{{cite web

|url=http://download.paragon-software.com/doc/manual_dos_eng.pdf

|title=PTS DOS 2000 Pro User Manual}} Paragon's description is (quote)

  • Purpose: Restores the booting of a system installed before PTS-DOS on the disk and restores its the boot sector.
  • Syntax: UNINSTALL filename [drive:]

Hardware requirements

See also

References

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20070417143032/http://www.phystechsoft.com/index.php?page=2 Official PhysTechSoft site: About PhysTechSoft]

[http://www.almnet.de/ptsdos/ptsfaq.html#secII Unofficial PTS-DOS FAQ in English]

[http://www.almnet.de/ptsdos/ptsfaqd.html#absIV Unofficial PTS-DOS FAQ in German]

[http://phystechsoft.ru/pts-dos Official PhysTechSoft site: Operating System PTS-DOS 2000]

{{cite web |title=PTS-DOS 2000 Pro User Manual |publisher=Paragon Technology GmbH |location=Buggingen, Germany |date=1999 |url=http://download.paragon-software.com/doc/manual_dos_eng.pdf |access-date=2018-05-12 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512094512/http://download.paragon-software.com/doc/manual_dos_eng.pdf |archive-date=2018-05-12}}

{{cite journal |title=MS-DOS-Clone made in Russia |date=1994-05-06 |journal=Computerwoche |url=http://www.computerwoche.de/a/ms-dos-clone-made-in-russia,1121205 |access-date=2015-04-12}}

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External links

  • {{Official website|http://phystechsoft.ru/pts-dos}}
  • [https://almnet.de/ptsdos/index.en.html Unofficial PTS-DOS FAQ]
  • [https://www.paragon-software.com/ Paragon GmbH homepage]

{{Disk operating systems}}

{{Russian operating systems}}

Category:DOS variants

Category:Assembly language software

Category:Disk operating systems

Category:1993 software

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