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DOS

DOS (/dɒs/, /dɔːs/) is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers. It primarily consists of IBM PC DOS and a rebranded version, Microsoft's MS-DOS, both of which were introduced in 1981. Later, compatible systems from other manufacturers are DR-DOS (1988), ROM-DOS (1989), PTS-DOS (1993), and FreeDOS (1994). MS-DOS dominated…

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related to Boot sequence · 37
DOS → AAh, As, AUTOEXEC, BAT, COM, COMMAND, Disk Parameter Table, DPT, DR DOS, Finally, For, If, In, In Windows, IO, It, Master Boot Record, MBR, MBRs, MS-DOS
related to Further reading · 26
DOS → Bailes, Cloth, Corp, Disk Operating System Manual, Disk Operating System User's, DOS Release, Eighth, IBM, IBM Corp, IBM DOS Release, ISBN, Item No, Item Number, January, John, Lenny, McGraw-Hill, Memory Management, Microsoft Corp, Mueller
related to Memory management · 21
DOS → BIOS, Both IBM, By, EMM386, EMS, Expanded Memory Specification, Extended Memory Specification, Generally XMS, HIMEM, Intel, KiB, MiB, Microsoft, QEMM, RAM, Specifications, SYS, The, This, V86
related to Design · 20
DOS → As, CPUs, DOS APIs, DOS-C, DOS/NT, FreeDOS, However, I/O, IBM PC, IBM PC DOS, IBM-compatible, IBM-PC-compatible, Intel, Machine-dependent, Microsoft, Motorola, MS-DOS, The, The DOS, While
related to Origins · 20
DOS → Bill Gates, Chairman John Opel, CP/M, Digital Research, Digital Research's CP/M, Executive Committee, Gary Kildall, However, IBM, IBM PC, IBM PC DOS, Intel, It, Mary Maxwell Gates, MS-DOS, Opel, PC DOS, United Way National Board, When IBM, Zilog Z80
related to External links · 19
DOS → An, Application Software, Archived, Batfiles, DOS Short File Name, Family, FREE, How Microsoft Got, IBM PC OS Contract, Online Windows XP SimulatorMS-DOS, Origins, Retrieved, Source Code, The DOS, The Rise, Tim Paterson, Timeline, Wayback Machine, Windows
related to File system · 17
DOS → CDS, Compaq MS-DOS, Each, FAT, FAT12, FAT16, FAT16B, FAT32, File Allocation Table, Finally MS-DOS, GB, GiB, Including, MiB, Starting, This, Windows
related to Terminate and stay resident · 15
DOS → Although DOS, Borland Sidekick, CD-ROM, CED, COM, COMMAND, DOSKEY, Microsoft CD-ROM Extensions, MSCDEX, PIM, Programs, Terminate-and-stay-resident, The DOS PRINT, These, TSR
see also · 15
DOS → COM, COMMAND, CP/M, DCP, Digital Research, Disk Control Program, DOS APIDOS/VIndex, DOS's TUI, DOS-compatible, DOSPC-MOS/386, East-German VEB Robotron, IBM PC, MS-DOS, VGA, Windows
related to Development tools · 14
DOS → BASIC, BASICA, Borland, CodeView, DPMI DOS, GW-BASICDJGPP, Macro Assembler, Microsoft, MicrosoftWatcom C/C, Turbo, Turbo Assembler, Turbo BASIC, Turbo Prolog, WatcomTurbo Pascal

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ms-dos ibm system windows operating pc file systems microsoft use memory versions programs disk also sys drive os used hardware

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DOSis aplatform-independent acronym for disk operating system0.90text
DOSis asingle-user0.90text
Zenith Data Systems's Z-DOSinstance ofsometimes under their own names0.80text
DOSBoxinstance ofThere are a number of other emulators for running DOS on various versions of Unix and Microsoft Windows0.80text
DOS 1.xinstance ofIn very old versions of DOS0.80text
the VBR would load the whole IO.SYS/IBMBIO.COM file into memory at 0000hinstance ofIn very old versions of DOS0.80text
DOSbox can be used to run DOS programs on those machinesinstance ofthird-party emulators0.80text
DOSrelated to Boot sequenceThe0.60section
DOSrelated to Boot sequencePC-compatible0.60section
DOSrelated to Boot sequenceThe ROM BIOS0.60section
DOSrelated to Boot sequenceAAh0.60section
DOSrelated to Boot sequenceIf0.60section

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