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Encyclopedia > DOS (disambiguation)
Look up dos, DOS in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

DOS may refer to: Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ...

  • The 1966 IBM mainframe computer disk operating system DOS, later called DOS/360
  • a group of similar disk-based operating systems for several microcomputers based on the Intel 8086 family of microprocessors. None of these operating systems was actually called simply DOS, although they are sometimes collectively referred to by this name.

DoS may refer to: DOS/360 was the operating system announced by IBM at the low end for the System/360 in 1964 and delivered in 1965 or 1966. ... This article is about the family of closely related operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... IBM PC-DOS was one of the three major operating systems that dominated the personal computer market from about 1985 to 1995. ... DOS Plus (also known as DOS+) is an operating system written by Digital Research, first released in 1985. ... DR-DOS is a DOS-type operating system for IBM PC-compatible personal computers, originally developed by Gary Kildalls Digital Research and derived from CP/M-86. ... PTS-DOS is a disk operating system, a DOS clone, developed in Russia by Phystechsoft. ... FreeDOS (formerly Free-DOS and PD-DOS) is an operating system for IBM PC compatible computers. ... OpenDOS is a freeware DOS-like and MS-DOS-compatible operating system. ... Disk Operating System (specifically) and disk operating system (generically), most often abbreviated as DOS (not to be confused with the DOS family of disk operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform), refer to operating system software used in most computers that provides the abstraction and management of secondary storage... AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga and AmigaOne personal computers. ... Disc Operatating system that worked on the 8-Bit Amstrad CPC Computer (and various clones). ... ANDOS is a Russian operating system. ... Beneath Apple DOS was a popular guide to Apple DOS. Apple DOS refers to operating systems for the Apple II series of microcomputers from 1978 through early 1983. ... Atari DOS, (often just known as DOS), was the disk operating system used with the Atari 8-bit family of computers. ... Commodore DOS, aka CBM DOS, was the disk operating system used with Commodores 8-bit computers. ... CSI-DOS is an operating system for Soviet personal computers Elektronika BK-0011M and Elektronika BK-0011, created in Samara. ... For Australian-based Objectivist Prodos Marinakis and the prodos institute, see here. ... TRS-DOS (which stood for the Tandy Radio Shack - Disk Operating System) was the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of 8-bit Z-80 micro-computers that were sold through Radio Shack through the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Density of states (DOS) is a property in statistical and condensed matter physics that quantifies how closely packed energy levels are in some physical system. ... The Democratic Opposition of Serbia was an alliance of political parties in Serbia, formed as an alliance against the ruling Socialist Party of Serbia and its leader, Slobodan Milosevic. ... The Day of Silence is an annual day where fags try to annoy the normal straight people across amercias schools. ...

Dos may refer to: Department of State redirects here. ... DoS redirects here. ... Square Co. ...

  • Dos (band), an American band that consists of the bass rock duo Mike Watt and Kira Roessler.

Dos (Mike Watt, left, and Kira Roessler), San Pedro, CA, 1996. ...

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  • Doss
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DOS Totally Explained (1644 words)
DOS is a single-user, single-task operating system with basic kernel functions that are non-reentrant code; once a process is begun, it must be allowed to run until finished before the same process can be used again.
DOS wasn't initially restricted to machines with identical architecture and plug-in cards as the IBM PC, and machine-dependent versions of DOS and similar operating systems were produced for many non-IBM-compatible x86-based machines.
DOS emulators are gaining popularity among Windows XP users because this system is incompatible with pure DOS.
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