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NEC 80286 APC4 Is Not Supported by MS-DOS 5.x & 6.x

Article ID: 78458

Article Last Modified on 11/16/2006



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0a
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.0 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21 Standard Edition
  • Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 Standard Edition



This article was previously published under Q78458

SUMMARY

According to NEC, MS-DOS 5.0 and later do not work on the NEC PowerMate 80286 APC4. The APC4 is an old machine that was designed to run MS-DOS versions up to and including version 3.2.

NOTE: Some customers have been able to get MS-DOS 5.0 and later to work on the APC4 by upgrading their BIOS to version 3.07. However, NEC does not support this setup because it is may not be stable.

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The NEC products included here are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.


Additional query words: 6.22 5.00 3rdparty 6.00 6.20

Keywords: KB78458