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DOS/V
DOS/V was a Japanese computing initiative starting in The promotion of DOS/V was done by IBM and its
1990 to allow personal computers to handle double-byte consortium called PC Open Architecture Developers’
Japanese text via software alone. It was developed by IBM Group, also called OADG.
for its PS/55 machines (a localized version of the PS/2).
Kanji fonts and other locale information were stored on
the hard disk rather than on special chips as in the pre-
ceding AX architecture. As with AX, its great value for
See also
the Japanese computing industry was in allowing com- • DOS
patibility with foreign software. This had not been pos- • AX architecture
sible under NEC’s proprietary PC-98 system, which was • PC Open Architecture Developers’ Group (OADG)
the market leader before DOS/V emerged. DOS/V stands • Unicode
for Disk Operating System/VGA (not for "version five").
DOS/V came out at approximately the same time as DOS
5.
External links
• Japan’s PC industry in transformation (historical
overview)
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