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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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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DOS (redirect from MS-DOS compatible disk operating system)
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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GLaDOS (redirect from Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System)
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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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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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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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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Atari DOS (redirect from DISK OPERATING SYSTEM II VERSION 2.0S)
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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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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