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	Disk Operating System (DOS)
		Basically, DOS is the medium through which the user and external devices attached to the system communicate with the system.
		DOS translate the command issued by the user in the format that is understandable by the computer and instruct computer to work accordingly.
		DOS indicates which directory you are in by displaying the directory's name in the command prompt.
	www.nos.org /htm/os1.htm (2685 words)

	DOS
		DOS services provide, instead, a convenient set of useful services that programs request because they do not want to be bothered with details.
		DOS has been able to survive for fifteen years because it was so simple and could easily be extended by other programs.
		After doing this for a while, the user is ready to move on to a real operating system.
	www.yale.edu /pclt/OPSYS/DOS.HTM (958 words)

	Introduction to DOS (Disk Operating System) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Most of the work of an operating system is done behind the scenes, and it determines the "personality" of the computer -- whether the user executes a program with a command or the the click of a mouse button.
		DOS also represents the most popular operating system for IBM and compatible personal computers, ensuring that many different programs can run on a computer that is suing this operating system.
		DOS is present in the memory of the computer.
	learn.gwumc.edu /hscidist/hsci106/Dos-tut.htm (310 words)

	PTS ROM-DOS. Operating System for Embedded Computers
		The system is designed to build the real-time systems and to provide the access to resources of the computer which has several constructive peculiarities.
		is a part of the operating system, which provides the initialization and testing of the equipment and the work with the equipment at the low level (including emulation of the keyboard, the display and disks on the present equipment).
		Under the operating system PTS ROM-DOS with the help of real-time multitasking environments (accessible in source codes, which are necessary for the certification) as RT-kernel or CTask-RT excellently work real-time applications.
	www.phystechsoft.com /ptsdos/romdos.html (491 words)

	DOS :: Disk Operating System
		DOS stands for Disk Operating System and, though it now seems like a dinosaur, was the foundation for Microsoft's success.
		Although DOS had been created by a company across the street from Microsoft, Bill referred IBM's representatives to a guy in California who owned another operating system which was big at the time.
		Since DOS was the standard operating system on all IBM PCs, it became the standard operating system and Microsoft grew into a major company.
	www.inforingpress.com /computer-careers/dos.htm (935 words)

	Operating System: MS-DOS, Window Operating System
		UNIX is a multi-user, multi-tasking, machine-independent operating system.
		In a soft real time operating system, the assembly line would continue to function, but the production output might be lower because objects failed to appear at the designated time, causing the robot to be temporarily unproductive.
		Even if an operating system doesn't qualify as a real time system, it could have certain characteristics that make it to be considered as a solution to a particular real-time application problem.
	www.clearleadinc.com /site/dos-operating-system.html (716 words)

	Operating system
		For PCs, the most popular operating systems are DOS, OS/2, the Windows family and increasingly, Linux, a PC version of Unix, one of the most popular minicomputer operating systems.
		These systems are designed to react and respond to input instantly, for example to permit software to order a burst of cold water when the temperature of a hot slab of metal reaches a certain level.
		For the purposes of the legal battle, the term "operating system" is defined in Section II(N) of the 1995 consent decree between Microsoft and the Department of Justice to resolve an earlier anti-trust case.
	www.angelfire.com /ma/kilenm/9807bas.html (1209 words)

	operating system definition - isp.webopedia.com - The Glossary for Internet Service Providers
		Operating systems perform basic tasks, such as recognizing input from the keyboard, sending output to the display screen, keeping track of files and directories on the disk, and controlling peripheral devices such as disk drives and printers.
		The operating system is also responsible for security, ensuring that unauthorized users do not access the system.
		The commands are accepted and executed by a part of the operating system called the command processor or command line interpreter.
	isp.webopedia.com /TERM/o/operating_system.html (519 words)

	Technology For All - Operating System
		The operating systems are the one that makes it easy for the user to use application programs with a mouse and keyboard without actually having a knowledge of how the specific devices and controls behind to all works.
		An operating system (OS) is software (with program instructions); it is designed to access all your internal hardware and to puts your computer to work.
		Your Operating System is the one that has the underlying control on a computer.
	www.technologyforall.com /TechForAll/operatingsystem.html (325 words)

	DOS System Files
		The modern DOS operating system is distributed on 3-5 high density floppy disks.
		This means that the volatile part of the DOS system consists of the boot record, C:\CONFIG.SYS, and C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT.
		If the DOS system files have been clobbered, boot the same release of DOS from a floppy.
	www.yale.edu /pclt/BOOT/DOS.HTM (364 words)

	DOS: Disk Operating System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		DOS commonly refers to the family of closely related operating systems which dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 2000: PC-DOS, MS-DOS, FreeDOS, DR-DOS, Novell-DOS, OpenDOS, PTS-DOS, ROM-DOS and several others.
		Such a system must handle physical disk I/O, the mapping of file names to disk addresses and protection of files from unauthorised access (in a multi-user system).
		DOS should present a uniform interface to different storage device such as floppy disks, hard disks and magnetic tape drives.
	www.javvin.com /softwareglossary/DOS.html (133 words)

	DISK OPERATING SYSTEM-"DOS" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The DOS operating is relatively simple ONLY after the user has mastered some basic commands and uses a computer on a fairly regular basis.
		While it is convenient to use a DOS shell, such as Microsoft's, XTREE, or IBIS' MENU program, at some time it will be necessary to know the fundamentals of making the system do what the user wants it to do.
		Outside of a DOS shell one would see the "prompt" at the left side of the screen.
	members.aol.com /dbarnesphd/page2-10.htm (1275 words)

	Felgall Operating Systems - CD ROM support in DOS
		Most Operating Systems these days automatically install the necessary support for your CD ROM drive as part of the normal Operating System Install.
		This is not true for DOS as all command line (pre Windows 95) versions of this Operating System predate the CD ROM drive as a commonly installed device on your PC.
		If your DOS version calls the file something different or it is located in a different spot then just substitute the location and name as appropriate.
	www.felgall.com /doswin7.htm (516 words)

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		DOS 4.0 (QDOS) is an easy-to-use, full-featured, well-documented disk operating system.
		The most popular family of operating systems called "DOS" is that running on IBM PCs.
		On a hard disk system first check that there is no disk in drive A. Hold down the and keys and, while holding them down, press the ~~key that is situated at the bottom of the numeric keypad.~~
	www.lycos.com /info/disk-operating-system--altair-dos.html (501 words)

	Popular operating systems list, by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
		The core component, the Hurd (Hird of Unix-replacing daemons) kernel (i.e., the core of the operating system), is still not completed because of its very ambitious goal: to surpass Unix-like kernels in functionality, security and stability while remaining largely compatible with them.
		It is unusual among Unix-like operating systems in that it is built on the Mach kernel, which is also used in Mac OS X. Tru64 was originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and called Digital UNIX.
		POSIX (Portable Operating System Interface for uniX) is a set of programming interface standards governing how to write source code so that the applications are portable between operating systems.
	www.bellevuelinux.org /operating_systems_list.html (1439 words)

	MS/DOS
		While each of these systems required directories, the information recorded in each file entry is not the same.
		Once DOS is booted this program is loaded into memory and translates your commands typed in near-english into a language the computer understands.
		To enter a DOS command, you type in the command at the command prompt and press the Enter/Return key.
	www.footefamily.org /train/dos.htm (1798 words)

	DOS - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On systems with only one floppy drive DOS permits the use of both letters for one drive, and prompts to swap disks.
		Because these letters are used directly by normal applications (unlike the /dev/* names in Unix-like operating systems), the addition of an additional hard drive can be disruptive to applications, which then require reconfiguration or even reinstallation.
		DOS emulators are recently sought after, even by Windows XP users, due to the incompatibility of the system with pure DOS.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/DOS (2126 words)

	DOS Boot Process
		The System Boot Sequence consists of a series of events that the system performs when it is turned on (or rebooted with the reset switch).
		Once found, the boot code is executed and the system is boot into the operating system.
		In the final stages of the boot process, presuming that the operating system files are found, the boot program will load those operating system files into memory and transfer control to them.
	www.dewassoc.com /support/msdos/dos_boot_process.htm (1010 words)

	The educational encyclopedia, dos operating systems
		DOS operating system learn how to write simple batch files to automate operations, and to take the tedium out of command-line typing, hints and suggestions to improve your usage of DOS and speed your computer's operations, file name extensions
		DOS batch language: a personal view DOS batch files, their uses, their gotchas, "how to do it", and a few impossibilities
		DOS extensions a computer file extension is commonly a three characters addition that follows the name of a file.
	www.educypedia.be /computer/windows.htm (462 words)

	The DOS Index
		DOS is a command line environment that sits beneath Windows systems.
		In fact, most of the operations of Windows are just graphical representations of the functions that DOS does.
		There are, of course, differences between all versions of Windows systems, but the introduction of NT took the OS in a different direction.
	home.att.net /~gobruen/progs/dos_batch (3080 words)

	Contec Systems develops continuous emission monitoring (CEMS) data acquisition software (DAS) (DARS) for continuous ...
		During the first four years of business, Contec Systems was one of the few environmental software companies to provide a CEM software solution on a single personal computer that was 100% compatible with a DOS based operating system.
		Requiring thousands of hours of development, Contec Systems’ first major product, dataSOFT, was an ingenious combination of source code programmed using the Assembly language, Microsoft’s C 7.0, and IBM Basic to provide a product that “time sliced” the DOS operating system.
		Since the DOS operating system is not a multitasking operating system (that is - cannot perform more than one (1) operation at a time), Contec’s founders provided a data acquisition program that was much more advanced than industry standards at that time.
	www.contecsystems.com /serv01.htm (693 words)

	What is DOS? - a definition from Whatis.com - see also: Disk Operating System
		The first personal computer version of DOS, called PC-DOS, was developed for IBM by Bill Gates and his new Microsoft Corporation.
		Today, Windows operating systems continue to support DOS (or a DOS-like user interface) for special purposes by emulating the operating system.
		In the 1970s before the personal computer was invented, IBM had a different and unrelated DOS (Disk Operating System) that ran on smaller business computers.
	searchsecurity.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci213911,00.html (310 words)

	FreeDOS \| The FreeDOS Project
		FreeDOS aims to be a complete, free, 100% MS-DOS compatible operating system.
		FreeDOS is a free DOS-compatible operating system for IBM-PC compatible systems.
		To support an embedded DOS system, such as a computerized cash register or till
	www.freedos.org (511 words)

	DI DOS Workstation
		DI3270 has been continuously maintained and supported for use in the DOS environment since its inception, with enhancements continuing during 1998, and is currently compatible with DOS operating systems of Release 6.0 and above.
		Due to diminishing deployment of the Disk Operating System (DOS), this commitment cannot be indefinite.
		ICOM’s commitment expressly excludes any obligation to support the operating system itself, including any drivers, stacks and ancillary software not explicitly part of the DI3270 product, nor can ICOM guarantee the availability of software or ancillary hardware with which DI3270 is compatible but which are not manufactured by ICOM Informatics.
	www.di3270.com /didos.htm (298 words)

	MS-DOS Operating System
		In July 1980 IBM assigned Microsoft to develop a 16-bit operating system for the personal computer for the fee of 186,000 dollars.
		In 1983 the success of the PC system was clear the desire for a graphical surface was rising.
		DOS programs being executed in the DOS box or directly in MS DOS before Windows start.
	www.operating-system.org /betriebssystem/_english/bs-msdos.htm (870 words)

	ROM-DOS Embedded Operating System
		MS-DOS 6.22 equivalent operating system for disk-based and diskless embedded systems
		The ROM-DOS operating system enables a user to place the DOS application in a disk-based or diskless embedded system and have it start running immediately after power is applied.
		All development can be done on a PC and the code debugged on either a PC or the target system, which completes the project in the shortest time.
	developer.winsystems.com /products/development/romdos622.html (554 words)

	Protecting Against Operating System DoS Attacks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Destructive DoS attacks generally require that the user have either administrative priviledges or physical access to the system.
		Avoid system compromises (easier said than done) and make sure that your machines are in physically secure locations.
		Most modern operating systems allow the administrator to put process limits on systems to limit the amount of disk space, processor time, and memory that a user is allowed to use.
	security.uchicago.edu /seminars/DDoS/osprot.shtml (117 words)

	The Shift to Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Gary Kindall's Digital Research, original developers of CP/M, the operating system used on 8-bit computers, was next to try when its GEM operating system was introduced in 1984.
		It lacked the capability of a full-scale operating system and did not succeed.
		In April 1987, IBM and Microsoft announced the intention to jointly develop a new operating system, OS/2 to replace MS-DOS for the next generations of computers.
	ieee.cincinnati.fuse.net /reiman/03_1999.html (485 words)

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