• A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that resides on and can use a disk storage device, such as a floppy disk, hard disk drive...
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  • GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is a fictional character from the video game series Portal. The character was created by Erik Wolpaw...
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  • 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...
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  • A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically...
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    that the operating system reads before any other part of the disk. Each partition then appears to the operating system as a distinct "logical" disk that uses...
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    operating systems, DOS is a platform-independent acronym for disk operating system, whose use predates the IBM PC. Dozens of other operating systems also...
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    and pointing devices. FLEX is a disk-based operating system, using 256-byte sectors on soft-sectored floppies; the disk structure uses linkage bytes in...
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  • Atari DOS is the disk operating system used with the Atari 8-bit computers. Operating system extensions loaded into memory were required in order for...
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  • Operating System) Puffin OS Convergent Technologies Operating System (CTOS) – later acquired by Unisys Cromemco DOS (CDOS) – a Disk Operating system compatible...
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  • This is a list of disk operating systems in which the acronym DOS is used to form their names. Many of these are simply referred to as "DOS" within their...
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  • MDOS (short for Myarc Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialized by Myarc. It was designed and implemented specifically for the Geneve...
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    Microcomputers) was the most popular operating system for microcomputers. Later, IBM bought the DOS (Disk Operating System) from Microsoft. After modifications...
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  • DOS, and at least partially compatible disk operating systems. It does not include the many other operating systems called "DOS" which are unrelated to IBM...
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  • directory information for the operating system. The low-level format of floppy disks (and early hard disks) is performed by the disk drive's controller. For...
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    mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system and...
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    Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control...
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  • TRSDOS (which stands for the Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System) is the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of eight-bit Zilog Z80 microcomputers...
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    open-source emulator which runs software for MS-DOS compatible disk operating systems—primarily video games. It was first released in 2002, when DOS technology...
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  • ISIS, short for Intel System Implementation Supervisor, was an operating system for early Intel microprocessors like the 8080. It was originally developed...
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  • bootable disk, with code that starts the operating system loading sequence, is not encrypted. Some hardware-based full disk encryption systems can truly...
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  • FlexOS is a discontinued modular real-time multiuser multitasking operating system (RTOS) designed for computer-integrated manufacturing, laboratory, retail...
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    IBM PC DOS (category Disk operating systems)
    for IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System), also known as PC DOS or IBM DOS, is a discontinued disk operating system for the IBM Personal Computer...
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    The Sophisticated Operating System, or SOS (/sɔːs/), is the primary operating system of the Apple III computer. SOS was developed by Apple Computer and...
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  • in the history of 16-bit x86 DOS-family disk operating systems from 1980 to present. Non-x86 operating systems named "DOS" are not part of the scope of...
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  • A disk quota is a limit set by a system administrator that restricts certain aspects of file system usage on modern operating systems. The function of...
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  • size of the image file set. Disk imaging is done for a variety of purposes including digital forensics, cloud computing, system administration, as part of...
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    Apple ProDOS (category Disk operating systems)
    marketed by Apple as meaning Professional Disk Operating System, and became the most popular operating system for the Apple II 10 months after its release...
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    (/ˌɛmˌɛsˈdɒs/ em-es-DOSS; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly...
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    due to the absence of an operating system. The only software that SCP could sell with the board was Microsoft's Standalone Disk BASIC-86, which Microsoft...
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  • disk.: 318  Historically, a network operating system was an operating system for a computer which implemented network capabilities. Operating systems...
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