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PTS-DOS is a disk operating system, a DOS
DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me....
 clone, developed in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 by PhysTechSoft.

History and versions
PhysTechSoft was formed in 1991 in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 by graduates and members of MIPT
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , abbreviated MIPT or informally Phystech is a leading Russian university, originally established in the Soviet Union....
, informally known as PhysTech. In the end of 1993, PhysTechSoft released first commercially available PTS-DOS as PTS-DOS v6.4 (version numbering obviously seems to follow versions of MS-DOS
MS-DOS

MS-DOS is an operating system commercialized by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the main operating system for personal computers during the 1980s....
, as Microsoft released MS-DOS 6.2 in November 1993).

Some programmers who left PhysTechSoft in 1995 founded Paragon Software Group
Paragon Software Group

Paragon Software Group produces hard disk optimization tools, like partition managers, boot managers, List of backup software and Disk cloning. Paragon products are available for single user computers up to and through versions for sites, servers and enterprises....
, took source code with them and released their own version named PTS-DOS v6.51CD.






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PTS-DOS is a disk operating system, a DOS
DOS

DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me....
 clone, developed in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 by PhysTechSoft.

History and versions


PhysTechSoft was formed in 1991 in Moscow
Moscow

Moscow is the capital and the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia of the Russian Federation. It is also the largest European cities and metropolitan areas, with the Moscow metropolitan area ranking among the largest urban areas in the world....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 by graduates and members of MIPT
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology , abbreviated MIPT or informally Phystech is a leading Russian university, originally established in the Soviet Union....
, informally known as PhysTech. In the end of 1993, PhysTechSoft released first commercially available PTS-DOS as PTS-DOS v6.4 (version numbering obviously seems to follow versions of MS-DOS
MS-DOS

MS-DOS is an operating system commercialized by Microsoft. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the main operating system for personal computers during the 1980s....
, as Microsoft released MS-DOS 6.2 in November 1993).

Some programmers who left PhysTechSoft in 1995 founded Paragon Software Group
Paragon Software Group

Paragon Software Group produces hard disk optimization tools, like partition managers, boot managers, List of backup software and Disk cloning. Paragon products are available for single user computers up to and through versions for sites, servers and enterprises....
, took source code with them and released their own version named PTS-DOS v6.51CD. According to official PhysTechSoft announcements, these programmers violate both copyright laws and Russian military laws, as PTS-DOS was developed in close relationship with Russian military and thus may be subject to military secret.

PhysTechSoft continued development on their own and released PTS-DOS v6.6 somewhere in between and presented PTS-DOS v6.65 at CeBIT
CeBIT

CeBIT is the world's largest computer expo. Since 1986 it is held each spring on the Hanover fairground in Hannover, Germany, and is often regarded as a barometer of the state of the art in information technology....
 exhibition in 1997. Next version from PhysTechSoft, formally PTS/DOS Extended Version 6.70 was labelled PTS-DOS 2000 and is still being distributed as a last 16-bit PTS-DOS system, .

Paragon continued PTS-DOS line and released Paragon DOS Pro 2000 (also known and labelled 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 they released PTS-DOS 32 (formally known as PTS-DOS v7.0), which added support for the FAT-32
File Allocation Table

File Allocation Table or FAT is a computer file system architecture now widely used on most computer systems and most memory cards, such as those used with digital cameras....
 file system
File system

In computing, a file system is a method for store and organize computer files and the data they contain to make it easy to find and access them....
.

PTS-DOS is certified by Russian Ministry of Defence
Russian Ministry of Defence

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation exercises operational leadership of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.The Russian Minister of Defence is the nominal commander of all the armed forces, serving under the president of the Russian Federation, in whom executive authority over the military is vested....
.

Hardware requirements

  • Intel 80286
    Intel 80286

    The Intel 286, introduced on February 1, 1982, was an x86 16-bit microprocessor with 134,000 transistors.It was widely used in IBM PC compatible computers during the mid 1980s to early 1990s....
     CPU or better
  • 512kb RAM or more


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