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First post, by coolhaken

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I have a game in .IMG format dumped by my friend.
The OEM Operation System Name is mysterious for me.
IBM PC DOS 3.3 ? MS-DOS 3.3 ?
Anyone know what is it ?

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Reply 1 of 7, by ripsaw8080

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It's identical to IBM PC DOS 3.3 (circa 1987) except the two spaces after IBM are changed to MS -- dunno if that was done officially for some reason or someone hacked it in.

Reply 2 of 7, by mrau

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further down it says ibmdos.com

Reply 3 of 7, by ppgrainbow

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coolhaken wrote:
I have a game in .IMG format dumped by my friend. The OEM Operation System Name is mysterious for me. IBM PC DOS 3.3 ? MS-DOS 3. […]
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I have a game in .IMG format dumped by my friend.
The OEM Operation System Name is mysterious for me.
IBM PC DOS 3.3 ? MS-DOS 3.3 ?
Anyone know what is it ?

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Floppy and hard disk images that have the IBMMS3.3 OEM signature within the first 16 bytes of the disk were formatted under IBM PC-DOS 3.3 (1987). Further down, you will see a IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM - those are files that are need to boot the OS.

Reply 4 of 7, by coolhaken

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ppgrainbow wrote:

Floppy and hard disk images that have the IBMMS3.3 OEM signature within the first 16 bytes of the disk were formatted under IBM PC-DOS 3.3 (1987). Further down, you will see a IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM - those are files that are need to boot the OS.

Thanks for your reply.
As you said, this OEM signature "IBM 3.3" is IBM PC-DOS 3.3 and "IBMMS3.3" is IBM PC-DOS 3.3, too.
They are all officially, right ?
Don't know what's the different between them ?

Reply 5 of 7, by ppgrainbow

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coolhaken wrote:
Thanks for your reply. As you said, this OEM signature "IBM 3.3" is IBM PC-DOS 3.3 and "IBMMS3.3" is IBM PC-DOS 3.3, too. They […]
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ppgrainbow wrote:

Floppy and hard disk images that have the IBMMS3.3 OEM signature within the first 16 bytes of the disk were formatted under IBM PC-DOS 3.3 (1987). Further down, you will see a IBMBIO.COM and IBMDOS.COM - those are files that are need to boot the OS.

Thanks for your reply.
As you said, this OEM signature "IBM 3.3" is IBM PC-DOS 3.3 and "IBMMS3.3" is IBM PC-DOS 3.3, too.
They are all officially, right ?

That's correct.

Reply 6 of 7, by ripsaw8080

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IBM did indeed licence MS-DOS from Microsoft, but that relationship was usually not mentioned explicitly in PC DOS itself (e.g. lots of "Licensed Material - Program Property of IBM" messages, but no mention of MS anywhere). So, the signature containing "MS" seems odd... I've never seen it on any English versions, at least.

Reply 7 of 7, by Jo22

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Uhm, don't know if that's true, but wasn't PC-DOS 3.30 a bit ahead of its time ?
This site claims it was released before MS-DOS 3.30.

And I think it was also the first version to support 1.44MB floppies (MS-DOS 3.2 didn't),
extended partitions (early FAT16) and batch files.

Maybe that's the reason some things were still in an -uhm- "beta" stage..

Edit: Just checked, my copy of PC-DOS also has the "IBM 3.3" signature on its floppies (see morsel below).

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