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The boot screen and command-line interface of MS-DOS 6, with an example of its directory structure The boot screen and command-line interface of FreeDOS, showing version information and an example of its directory structure. DOS (/ d ɒ s /, / d ɔː s /) is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers. [1] The DOS ...
The version included with PC DOS 3.0 and 3.1 is hard-coded to transfer the operating system from A: to B:, while from PC DOS 3.2 onward you can specify the source and destination, and can be used to install DOS to the harddisk. The version included with MS-DOS 4 and PC DOS 4 is no longer a simple command-line utility, but a full-fledged installer.
MS-DOS (/ ˌ ɛ m ˌ ɛ s ˈ d ɒ s / em-es-DOSS; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.
GPGPU—General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units; GPIB—General-Purpose Instrumentation Bus; GPL—General Public License; GPL—General-Purpose Language; GPRS—General Packet Radio Service; GPT—GUID Partition Table; GPU—Graphics Processing Unit; GRUB—Grand Unified Boot-Loader; GERAN—GSM EDGE Radio Access Network
Microsoft announced OEM extensions to MS-DOS that will allow any computer running DOS 3.1 or 3.2 to read data from any CD-ROM formatted in High Sierra Format. [290] Microsoft demonstrates MS-DOS 4.0 and MS-Net 2.0 at a Paris trade show. They will be released simultaneously in the fourth quarter this year. [291]
Examples of operating systems that do not impose this limit include Unix-like systems, and Microsoft Windows NT, 95-98, and ME which have no three character limit on extensions for 32-bit or 64-bit applications on file systems other than pre-Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5 versions of the FAT file system. Some filenames are given extensions ...
Minimal instruction set computer (MISC) is a central processing unit (CPU) architecture, usually in the form of a microprocessor, with a very small number of basic operations and corresponding opcodes, together forming an instruction set. Such sets are commonly stack-based rather than register-based to reduce the size of operand specifiers.
Disk Operating System/360, also DOS/360, or simply DOS, is the discontinued first member of a sequence of operating systems for IBM System/360, System/370 and later mainframes. It was announced by IBM on the last day of 1964, and it was first delivered in June 1966. [1] In its time, DOS/360 was the most widely used operating system in the world ...