Understanding DOS

Written By IMAGINATION on Senin, 08 Agustus 2011 | 05.14

DOS is (are) the operating system that uses command-line interface used by computer users in the decade of the 1980s. To boot the computer facilities and run multiple software applications, such as WAS and Lotus. There are still many DOS functions that are used today, especially in resolving some troubleshooting on computer hardware. Although it could be done on the GUI-based operating systems. The following DOS functions. • Organizing or controlling the activities of computer memory • Set • Set the input and output data files • Management
• Management directory
DOS family is divided into bebrapa classes, namely: MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System), including the Tandy DOS, Compaq DOS, Q-DOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and several clones of operasiMS-DOS systems are sold to The computer systems maker IBM PC / PC-DOS Compatible.IBM (International Business Machines Personal Computer Disk Operating System), which, though still made by Microsoft, modified a little to be used by IBM computers PC.DR-DOS (Digital Research Disk Operating System), created by the makers of the operating system CP / M, Gary Kildall.Novell Personal Netware, the DR-DOS version that was sold to Novell as the company that houses the CP / M is bankrupt (Novell acquired Digital Research Incorporated). Caldera DOS, is Novell Personal Netware version that was sold to Caldera Corporation.FreeDOS, a DOS version that was built from the remnants of the development of Caldera DOS, developed by a community of open source.MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system that is widely used by computer IBM-PC or compatible with it. Microsoft made MS-DOS as a mainstream operating system, before eventually stop supporting MS-DOS slowly when they make a graphical interface-based operating system (also known as GUI) for the mainstream market, which is referred to as Microsoft Windows.MS- DOS was first released in 1981, and over time, Microsoft also launched a newer version of MS-DOS. No fewer than eight times until Microsoft released new versions of MS-DOS from 1981 until Microsoft stop supporting MS-DOS in 2000. MS-DOSmerupakan one key to Microsoft's success in producing the software, from a small company when founded programming language to become a software company in charge of the world as though worked with.
MS-DOS was created by a manufacturer of computer, named Seattle Computer Products (SCP) which in kepalai by Tim Patterson, who later on recruited by Microsoft to develop-DOS in 1980 as a software operating system called Q-DOS (stands for Quick and Dirty Operating System), which subsequently was renamed 86-DOS, because the Q-DOS is designed to run on computers with Intel 8086 processor. Microsoft would buy a license at a price of U.S. $ 50,000 from the SCP, then changed its name to MS-DOS. Furthermore, when IBM was about to launch a personal computer called the IBM PC, Microsoft also sells licenses MS-DOS to IBM.

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