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Today, DOS is more historically important than anything.
DOS laid the foundation for the IBM PC to emerge in the PC market that at the time was still suffering from a total OS/platform/architecture war. It standardized soem technology in PCs such as the BIOS... however over the past couple of decades the BIOS has been rendered largely irrelevant to any processes on PCs for anythign beyond booting the system, and the past decade saw efforts to completely replace the BIOS with extensible firmware (UEFI).
So what makes DOS historically "important" is because it ended up allowing us to have PCs as we know them today, though only to a point. DOS's capabilities are limited without a lot of outside help, and even then DOS just can't really compare to any operating system with a genuine kernel at the core.
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∙ 11y agoThe functions of DOS, disc operation system, include obtaining keyboard input, producing screen output, and making/obtaining files for assembly language computer programs.
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What does MSDOS stand for?
MicroSoft - Disk Operating System
History of the disk operating system?
History of Disk operating system
What is the example of disk operating system?
is linux a disk operating system
What is the meaning of disc operating system?
disck operating system means an operating system primarily run on older computers and run from a disket or disk todays computers run the operating system from the hardrive where as witrh dos the operating system was loaded into the ram via a disk or loaded onto the hard drive via a disk plus it was also comand line driven
What is full meaning of ms-dos?
MS=Microsoft DOS = Disk Operating System. The Microsoft precursor to Windows It was loaded on to a PC via floppy disks
Is Windows 7 an MS-DOS operating system?
By the common definition, no. It is a "disk operating" (basically any operating system booted from a disk), and it is made by Microsoft, but the similarities end there.
When was Myarc Disk Operating System created?
Myarc Disk Operating System was created in 1987.
What are the characteristics of disk operating system?
1 ) Head Motion. 2) Disk Portability. 3)Sides . 4)Platters. 5)Head Mechanism.
What is the system disk?
The system disk is the partition from which the operating system was loaded at startup.
What was the first major operating system?
D.O.S (Disk Operating System)
Full form of DOS?
MS-DOS stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. MS-DOS was an operating system for personal computers that was used during the 1980s through the mid-1990s.
What is the first operating system name?
microsoft disk operating system
