MS-DOS has few practical advantages these days. However, it is relatively small in size, and is universally compatible with all PCs (since it was designed to run on the very first one). It starts up fairly quickly on most hardware, uses little memory, and allows direct access to hardware, unlike most protected mode operating systems today.
There are three main types of people who use MS-DOS today:
1. Enthusiasts - People who enjoy either playing DOS games or DOS programming, and don't want to do so in another way, such as via an emulator.
2. Pragmatists - People who either rely on or don't want to stop using programs they regularly use in MS-DOS.
3. Technicians - Even today, many of the best computer diagnostics programs run via DOS. This is because MS-DOS provides raw access to the hardware, unlike in a protected mode operating
There are three main types of people who use MS-DOS today:
1. Enthusiasts - People who enjoy either playing DOS games or DOS programming, and don't want to do so in another way, such as via an emulator.
2. Pragmatists - People who either rely on or don't want to stop using programs they regularly use in MS-DOS.
3. Technicians - Even today, many of the best computer diagnostics programs run via DOS. This is because MS-DOS provides raw access to the hardware, unlike in a protected mode operating system.
Advantages:
DOS is very lightweight and it allows direct access to most hardware.
It does not have the overhead of a multitasking operating system.
Disadvantages:
It is 16-bit and limited to 640k of RAM (this can be overcome with a DOS extender)
It runs in real mode, so a buggy or malicious program can cause corruption.
Disadvantages
Advantages
Ms dos is an operating system.
Only if it has a MSDOS-emulator -- not likely.
There is no any software for MSDOS shell as MSDOS is itself a system software.
MSDOS was the original operating system for the IBM PC. It has since been replaced in current versions of Windows by a scripting utility, as Windows is now a complete operating system and does not need MSDOS anymore.
Start=>Run=>msdos
Microsoft Disc Operating System
MSDOS was officially released in 1981 by Microsoft.
PCDOS an IBM branded version of MSDOS, licensed to IBM. Eventually IBM abandoned it and MicroSoft took over direct marketing of MSDOS.
No. Office 2007 requires Windows.
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It's one of the first Windows operating systems.
MS-DOS itself does not support virtual memory. Some applications that use DPMI can use virtual memory; all you as a user need to do is provide a copy of the DPMI host.
You can use entry level configuration to use MSDOS.. 500 MB Hard Disk space, 16 MB RAM and mono display is sufficient..