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COMPAQ MS-DOS 3.31 |
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First released in 1987 by COMPAQ Computer Corp, this version of MS-DOS displays the following messages on boot:
The COMPAQ Personal Computer MS-DOS
Version 3.31
(C) Copyright Compaq Computer Corp. 1982, 1988
(C) Copyright Microsoft Corp. 1981, 1987
This was the first version of DOS to support 32-bit logical sector numbers, enabling partitions larger than 32Mb and partitions that extended beyond the first 32Mb of disk space. These features were soon added to DOS 4.0 and OS/2 1.1 as well.
An older version of COMPAQ MS-DOS 3.31 can be found on the COMPAQ Diagnostics 5.08 diskette, a 360Kb disk image from the PCjs Archives that contains hidden MS-DOS 3.31 files dated September 1987. The disk displays a different boot message:
The COMPAQ Personal Computer MS-DOS
Version 3.31
(C) Copyright Compaq Computer Corp. 1982, 1987
(C) Copyright Microsoft Corp. 1981, 1987
making it clear that the diskette is a COMPAQ MS-DOS 3.31 diskette from 1987; all the other sources we've checked only have disks from 1988 or later.
UPDATE: PCjs has since unearthed another diskette, COMPAQ MS-DOS 3.31 (1987), containing more 1987 binaries.
Later revisions of COMPAQ MS-DOS 3.31 were released as well. We have archived three "Rev. G" disks obtained from WinWorld (see "Microsoft MS-DOS 3.31 [Compaq OEM Rev G] (3.5-720k)"). All the files on those disks are dated May 1990.
The FASTART program on Disk 1 expects a "USER PROGRAMS" disk, which we have filed under
COMPAQ Diagnostics and Utilities. You could, for example, use the
"COMPAQ User Programs (1989)" diskette, which was part of a later
COMPAQ MS-DOS 4.01 release, since COMPAQ states that the disk "supersedes earlier versions".
Directory Listings of the distribution diskettes are provided below.
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This disk from the PCjs Personal Disk Collection is, unfortunately, not an original distribution disk, but it's included here because it's the only available copy of other COMPAQ MS-DOS 3.31 binaries released in 1987.
It's safe to say the following binaries were not part of the original distribution:
- EXMM.SYS (ZSoft Extended Memory Manager)
- HIMEM.SYS (DOS XMS Driver, Version 2.04 - 8/17/88)
- SMARTDRV.SYS (Microsoft SMARTDrive Disk Cache v2.10)
but, in the interest of preserving all manner of historical curiosities, we have decided to leave the disk as-is.
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
IBMBIO COM 23591 09-16-87 12:00p
IBMDOS COM 30632 09-16-87 12:00p
COMMAND COM 25332 09-16-87 12:00p
EXMM SYS 4574 11-05-86 12:07p
ANSI SYS 1709 09-16-87 12:00p
CLOCK SYS 1787 09-16-87 12:00p
COUNTRY SYS 11254 09-16-87 12:00p
DISKCOPY COM 6264 09-16-87 12:00p
DISKINIT EXE 49971 09-16-87 12:00p
DISPLAY SYS 11259 09-16-87 12:00p
DRIVER SYS 1385 09-16-87 12:00p
ENHDISK SYS 3321 09-16-87 12:00p
FASTOPEN EXE 3888 09-16-87 12:00p
FDISK COM 54051 09-16-87 12:00p
FORMAT COM 13643 09-16-87 12:00p
KEYB COM 10868 09-16-87 12:00p
KEYBOARD SYS 41144 09-16-87 12:00p
MODE COM 15159 09-16-87 12:00p
PRINTER SYS 13559 09-16-87 12:00p
SYS COM 6193 09-16-87 12:00p
VDISK SYS 3634 09-16-87 12:00p
XCOPY EXE 11216 09-16-87 12:00p
APPEND EXE 5794 09-16-87 12:00p
ASSIGN COM 1530 09-16-87 12:00p
ATTRIB EXE 10656 09-16-87 12:00p
BACKUP COM 30048 09-16-87 12:00p
CHKDSK COM 11923 09-16-87 12:00p
COMP COM 4183 09-16-87 12:00p
DEBUG COM 16000 09-16-87 12:00p
DISKCOMP COM 5848 09-16-87 12:00p
EDLIN COM 7495 09-16-87 12:00p
EXE2BIN EXE 3050 09-16-87 12:00p
FIND EXE 6403 09-16-87 12:00p
GRAFTABL COM 6208 09-16-87 12:00p
GRAPHICS COM 7576 09-16-87 12:00p
JOIN EXE 9612 09-16-87 12:00p
LABEL COM 2346 09-16-87 12:00p
LINK EXE 39076 09-16-87 12:00p
MORE COM 282 09-16-87 12:00p
PRINT COM 8995 09-16-87 12:00p
RECOVER COM 5369 09-16-87 12:00p
RESTORE COM 35720 09-16-87 12:00p
SHARE EXE 8664 09-16-87 12:00p
SORT EXE 1946 09-16-87 12:00p
SUBST EXE 10552 09-16-87 12:00p
TREE COM 3540 09-16-87 12:00p
WORDS 660 09-16-87 12:00p
BASIC COM 3532 09-16-87 12:00p
BASICA COM 3532 09-16-87 12:00p
BASICA EXE 79272 09-16-87 12:00p
NLSFUNC EXE 3029 09-16-87 12:00p
REPLACE EXE 13886 09-16-87 12:00p
SELECT COM 4188 09-16-87 12:00p
SETCLOCK COM 3715 09-16-87 12:00p
INTEREST BAS 384 09-16-87 12:00p
4201 CPI 17089 09-16-87 12:00p
5202 CPI 459 09-16-87 12:00p
EGA CPI 49065 09-16-87 12:00p
HIMEM SYS 6261 08-19-88 10:54a
SMARTDRV SYS 10224 12-29-88 11:37p
60 file(s) 782546 bytes
Total files listed:
60 file(s) 782546 bytes
418304 bytes free
Volume in drive A is FASTART
Directory of A:\
IBMBIO COM 23591 10-03-88 12:00p
IBMDOS COM 30648 10-03-88 12:00p
COMMAND COM 25332 10-03-88 12:00p
AUTOEXEC BAT 11 10-14-88 12:00p
CONFIG SYS 46 10-14-88 12:00p
EXTDISK SYS 11721 10-14-88 12:00p
FORMAT COM 13675 10-14-88 12:00p
FASTART EXE 232841 10-14-88 12:00p
8 file(s) 337865 bytes
Total files listed:
8 file(s) 337865 bytes
387072 bytes free
Volume in drive A is STARTUP
Directory of A:\
IBMBIO COM 23591 10-03-88 12:00p
IBMDOS COM 30648 10-03-88 12:00p
COMMAND COM 25332 10-03-88 12:00p
ANSI SYS 1709 10-03-88 12:00p
CLOCK SYS 1787 10-03-88 12:00p
COUNTRY SYS 11254 10-03-88 12:00p
DISKCOPY COM 6264 10-03-88 12:00p
DISKINIT EXE 55795 10-03-88 12:00p
DISPLAY SYS 11651 10-03-88 12:00p
DRIVER SYS 1385 10-03-88 12:00p
ENHDISK SYS 3441 10-03-88 12:00p
FASTOPEN EXE 3888 10-03-88 12:00p
FDISK COM 45052 10-03-88 12:00p
FORMAT COM 13675 10-03-88 12:00p
KEYB COM 10974 10-03-88 12:00p
KEYBOARD SYS 41144 10-03-88 12:00p
MODE COM 15188 10-03-88 12:00p
PRINTER SYS 13559 10-03-88 12:00p
SYS COM 6193 10-03-88 12:00p
VDISK SYS 3759 10-03-88 12:00p
XCOPY EXE 11216 10-03-88 12:00p
21 file(s) 337505 bytes
Total files listed:
21 file(s) 337505 bytes
382976 bytes free
Volume in drive A is OPERATING
Directory of A:\
APPEND EXE 5794 10-03-88 12:00p
ASSIGN COM 1530 10-03-88 12:00p
ATTRIB EXE 10656 10-03-88 12:00p
BACKUP COM 30048 10-03-88 12:00p
BASIC COM 3532 10-03-88 12:00p
BASICA COM 3532 10-03-88 12:00p
BASICA EXE 79304 10-03-88 12:00p
CHKDSK COM 11939 10-03-88 12:00p
COMMAND COM 25332 10-03-88 12:00p
COMP COM 4183 10-03-88 12:00p
DEBUG COM 16000 10-03-88 12:00p
DISKCOMP COM 5848 10-03-88 12:00p
DISKCOPY COM 6264 10-03-88 12:00p
EDLIN COM 7495 10-03-88 12:00p
EXE2BIN EXE 3050 10-03-88 12:00p
FIND EXE 6403 10-03-88 12:00p
FORMAT COM 13675 10-03-88 12:00p
GRAFTABL COM 6272 10-03-88 12:00p
GRAPHICS COM 7576 10-03-88 12:00p
JOIN EXE 9612 10-03-88 12:00p
LABEL COM 2346 10-03-88 12:00p
LINK EXE 39076 10-03-88 12:00p
MORE COM 282 10-03-88 12:00p
NLSFUNC EXE 3029 10-03-88 12:00p
PRINT COM 8995 10-03-88 12:00p
RECOVER COM 5385 10-03-88 12:00p
REPLACE EXE 13886 10-03-88 12:00p
RESTORE COM 35720 10-03-88 12:00p
SELECT COM 4188 10-03-88 12:00p
SETCLOCK COM 3715 10-03-88 12:00p
SHARE EXE 8664 10-03-88 12:00p
SORT EXE 1946 10-03-88 12:00p
SUBST EXE 10552 10-03-88 12:00p
TREE COM 3540 10-03-88 12:00p
XCOPY EXE 11216 10-03-88 12:00p
4201 CPI 17089 10-03-88 12:00p
5202 CPI 459 10-03-88 12:00p
EGA CPI 49065 10-03-88 12:00p
INTEREST BAS 384 10-03-88 12:00p
WORDS 660 10-03-88 12:00p
40 file(s) 478242 bytes
Total files listed:
40 file(s) 478242 bytes
231424 bytes free
Volume in drive A is FASTART
Directory of A:\
IBMBIO COM 23740 05-08-90 12:00p
IBMDOS COM 30650 05-08-90 12:00p
COMMAND COM 25398 05-08-90 12:00p
AUTOEXEC BAT 11 05-08-90 12:00p
CONFIG SYS 45 05-08-90 12:00p
FASTART EXE 227233 05-08-90 12:00p
EXTDISK SYS 10406 05-08-90 12:00p
7 file(s) 317483 bytes
408576 bytes free
Volume in drive A is STARTUP
Directory of A:\
IBMBIO COM 23740 05-08-90 12:00p
IBMDOS COM 30650 05-08-90 12:00p
COMMAND COM 25398 05-08-90 12:00p
DISKCOPY COM 6850 05-08-90 12:00p
FDISK COM 51136 05-08-90 12:00p
FORMAT COM 14733 05-08-90 12:00p
KEYB COM 11076 05-08-90 12:00p
MODE COM 16618 05-08-90 12:00p
SYS COM 6227 05-08-90 12:00p
FASTOPEN EXE 3888 05-08-90 12:00p
XCOPY EXE 11776 05-08-90 12:00p
ANSI SYS 2023 05-08-90 12:00p
CLOCK SYS 1789 05-08-90 12:00p
COUNTRY SYS 11254 05-08-90 12:00p
DISPLAY SYS 11971 05-08-90 12:00p
DRIVER SYS 1520 05-08-90 12:00p
ENHDISK SYS 10406 05-08-90 12:00p
KEYBOARD SYS 41164 05-08-90 12:00p
PRINTER SYS 13751 05-08-90 12:00p
VDISK SYS 3768 05-08-90 12:00p
20 file(s) 299738 bytes
421888 bytes free
Volume in drive A is OPERATING
Directory of A:\
APPEND EXE 5810 05-08-90 12:00p
ASSIGN COM 1530 05-08-90 12:00p
ATTRIB EXE 10656 05-08-90 12:00p
BACKUP COM 30738 05-08-90 12:00p
BASIC COM 3534 05-08-90 12:00p
BASICA COM 3534 05-08-90 12:00p
BASICA EXE 79434 05-08-90 12:00p
CHKDSK COM 11941 05-08-90 12:00p
COMMAND COM 25398 05-08-90 12:00p
COMP COM 4183 05-08-90 12:00p
DEBUG COM 16002 05-08-90 12:00p
DISKCOMP COM 5848 05-08-90 12:00p
DISKCOPY COM 6850 05-08-90 12:00p
EDLIN COM 7495 05-08-90 12:00p
EXE2BIN EXE 3050 05-08-90 12:00p
FIND EXE 6403 05-08-90 12:00p
FORMAT COM 14733 05-08-90 12:00p
GRAFTABL COM 6274 05-08-90 12:00p
GRAPHICS COM 7578 05-08-90 12:00p
JOIN EXE 9612 05-08-90 12:00p
LABEL COM 2363 05-08-90 12:00p
LINK EXE 43988 05-08-90 12:00p
MORE COM 314 05-08-90 12:00p
NLSFUNC EXE 3029 05-08-90 12:00p
PRINT COM 9309 05-08-90 12:00p
RECOVER COM 5387 05-08-90 12:00p
REPLACE EXE 14304 05-08-90 12:00p
RESTORE COM 35868 05-08-90 12:00p
SELECT COM 4190 05-08-90 12:00p
SETCLOCK COM 3717 05-08-90 12:00p
SHARE EXE 8666 05-08-90 12:00p
SORT EXE 1946 05-08-90 12:00p
SUBST EXE 10552 05-08-90 12:00p
TREE COM 3540 05-08-90 12:00p
XCOPY EXE 11776 05-08-90 12:00p
4201 CPI 17089 05-08-90 12:00p
5202 CPI 459 05-08-90 12:00p
EGA CPI 49065 05-08-90 12:00p
INTEREST BAS 384 05-08-90 12:00p
WORDS 660 05-08-90 12:00p
EGA_THIN CPI 49030 05-08-90 12:00p
LCD_THIN CPI 10618 05-08-90 12:00p
LCD CPI 10752 05-08-90 12:00p
43 file(s) 557609 bytes
150528 bytes free
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