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Modern movements to maintain compatibility of the MS-DOS API involve [[FreeDOS]] and [[DOSBox]]. They are both an installable operating system and an emulator respectively. DOSBox has even extended the MS-DOS API to other chipsets outside of [[x86]]. The other chipsets DOSBox has extended MS-DOS's API support to include [[PowerPC]], [[ARM Architecture]], [[MIPS]], [[SPARC]], etc.

==Operating systems with support for the MS-DOS API==

*[[FreeDOS]] (free, open source

*[[Microsoft Windows]] (with the aid of a DOS subsystem)

**All versions prior to [[Windows XP]] (all non-NT versions are based on DOS anyway)

**Windows XP (home, pro, media center)

**[[Windows Server 2003]]

**[[Windows Vista]]

*[[MS-DOS]] (most famous example)

*[[PC-DOS]]

*[[ROM-DOS]] (a version of DOS specifically for solid state ROM)

==Programs with support for the MS-DOS API==

*[[cmd.exe]]

*[[DOSBox]]

*[[NTVDM]]

==Brief list of programs on the MS-DOS API==

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*[[Windows 3.0]]

*[[Windows 3.1]]

==See also==

*[[DOS/4GW]]

[[Category:DOS on IBM PC compatibles]]

[[Category:Application programming interfaces]]