NewDos/80

NewDos/80

Company / developer	Apparat, Inc.
OS family	DOS
Working state	Historic
Source model	Proprietary
Initial release	1980s
Available language(s)	English
Supported platforms	TRS-80
Kernel type	Monolithic
Default user interface	Command line interface

NewDos/80 is a third-party operating system that was made available for the Radio Shack TRS-80 line of microcomputers beginning in 1980. NewDos/80 was developed by Apparat, Inc. of Denver, Colorado.

The operating system had additional commands and features that were not available in TRS-DOS, the native operating system for TRS-80 computers. NewDos/80 allowed TRS-80 computers to take advantage of advances in floppy disk storage that went beyond the initial 87.5KB 35-track, single-density, single-sided format.^[1] The system also corrected issues that early versions of TRS-DOS had with arbitrarily losing data due to errors in how it communicated with the contemporary TRS-80 disk drives' 1771 disk controller.

NewDos/80 had many options for specifying specific low-level disk configurations. Settings such as diskette formats, disk drive types, track geometry and controllers could be configured using the PDRIVE command.^[1]

Commands

Some typical NewDos/80 commands:

NewDos/80 commands and counterparts in other operating systems

Command	MS-DOS, OS/2, Windows	UNIX, Unix-like
APPEND	type file1 >> file2	cat file >> file2
ATTRIB	attrib	chmod
AUTO	AUTOEXEC.BAT	~/.profile or ~/.login or /etc/rc*
CLOCK	prompt $t *	in some shells: PS1="...\t..." *
COPY	copy	cp
DIR	dir	ls
FORMAT	format	mkfs
FREE	chkdsk	df
KILL	del	rm
LIST	type	cat
LOAD program	program	program
PRINT	type file >> prn	lpr
PROT	attrib	chmod
RENAME	ren or rename	mv

See also

• List of DOS commands
• List of Unix utilities

References

1. ^ ^{a b} System 80 Archive Site - NewDos/80, version 2.0 and the JV1 Disk Image format, classic-computers.org.nz

External links

• Mike's Virtual Computer Museum - NEWDOS/80 page
• Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site - NEWDOS/80 Version 2 reference

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