welcome to ď‚– What is Dos Operating System?
MS-DOS MS-DOS is known as Microsoft Disk Operating system and it is developed, created and designed by Microsoft Corporation USA who owned by Bill Gates the richest man on the planet. This Operating System or commonly called as OS was developed in 1981 and the first version was named as Dos 1.0.
MS-DOS is a NON GUI [Graphical User Interface] where all the activities such as selecting navigation, dropping and all the other computer activities are done by basic dos commands like copy, xcopy , del , deltree and so on. MS-DOS is a command line operating system where all desired result are obtained by using simple dos commands
There are basically two versions of MS-DOS (Dos Operating System)
PC-Dos :: MS-Dos ::
PC-Dos Above Both versions of Dos Operating System have been developed by Microsoft Corporation, here PCDos was specially developed for IBM Personal computer and MSDos was developed and written for Personal Computer [PC] or NON-IBM Personal Computers. As there are no such differences found in both versions of Dos Operating Systems.
MS-Dos Disk operating system (Dos) is a menu driven operating system which is simpler to use but is not as user friendly as windows. In Today’s world MSDOS is not used, windows operating system has replaced msdos. Still some people use dos operating system as a command line for certain purpose.
Basically there are two types of Basic Dos Commands
Internal Dos Commands. External Dos Commands.
Internal Dos Commands ď‚– ď‚™ Internal Dos :: These commands are commonly executed from a file called as command.com which is generally stored in root directory or c: or c drive.
External Dos Commands ď‚– ď‚™ External Dos Commands : External Dos Commands are those basic dos commands which require external supporting files which may be present on the bootable disk or hard disk, without supporting files you cannot run or execute this commands
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