Everything about Newdos 80 totally explained
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 Aparat, 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 85K 35-track, single-density, single-sided format.
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) 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.
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Some typical NewDos/80 commands:
| Command |
MS-DOS |
UNIX/Linux |
| 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="... ..." *
|
| 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
|
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