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DOS is an acronym for Disk Operating System (OS). A disk operating system is software that organizes and controls how computers read, write and interact with disks (floppy, hard, CD-ROM) and communicate with a computer's various input/output devices: keyboards, pointing devices, scanners, microphones, serial and parallel ports; screens, printers, modems, etc. The first two DOS variants came out concurrently, with the introduction of IBM's PC in August 1981: IBM PC-DOS, and Microsoft MS-DOS. There are now many DOSes: 4DOS (a DOS shell, not an OS), DR-DOS (Novell DOS), FreeDOS, MS-DOS, OpenDOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS, REAL-32, RTXDOS, RxDOS, TSX-32, and more, even real-time DOS. All DOSes have monolithic architectures, though FreeDOS 32 will be componentized. On this page, links are arranged in three groups and levels: 1) Top group: issues spanning multiple unrelated DOSs. 2) Middle group: graphic user interfaces for DOS. 3) Bottom group: specific DOSs.

Subcategories

• DR-DOS
• FAQs, Help, and Tutorials
• FreeDOS
• GEM
• Internet
• Open Source
• OpenDOS
• Programming
• REAL-32
• RTXDOS
• RxDOS
• Software
• Windows

Resources in This Category

• Doctor DOS Betamax; DOS Operating System

  http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ak621/DOS/DOS-Head.html
  Commentary, tutorials, references, Power-Users' Corner, for DOS and related utilities.

• DOS

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS
  Wikipedia article covering the history and design of DOS.

• RealDOS

  http://www.realdos.de/english/
  A barebones DOS alternative.

• RMF-DOS

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/rmfdos/
  Reduced Memory Footprint; goals: match functions of MS-DOS 6.22, IBM PC DOS 7.00, DR-DOS 7 subset. Written mainly in 2 free C compilers and assembler, most parts are smaller uncompressed than compressed parts of MS, IBM, DR. [Open Source, BSD]

• Shell Tips

  https://www.shell-tips.com/
  Weblog covering useful tips for a number of command line interfaces including the DOS shell.

• Unofficial PTS-DOS FAQ

  http://www.almnet.de/ptsdos/index.en.html
  In English and German languages; with wiki, downloads, links.

Related Categories

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