{"id":319,"date":"2012-12-29T05:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T05:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?p=319"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:13:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:43:04","slug":"what-is-dos","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/what-is-dos\/","title":{"rendered":"What is DOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a class=\"vsc\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Certified-Computer Fundamentals MS Office\"><span class=\"vsc-cn\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Certify and Increase Opportunity.<\/span><br>\n<span style=\"color: green;\">Be <\/span><br>\nGovt. Certified Computer Fundamentals MS Office<br>\n<\/span><\/a><br>\n<strong>What is DOS<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>DOS stands for DISK OPERATING SYSTEM, is an operating system from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>DOS (English pronunciation: \/d\u0252s\/), short for &#8220;Disk Operating System&#8221;,is an acronym for several closely related operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions 95, 98, and Millennium Edition.<\/p>\n<p>Related systems include MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, PTS-DOS, ROM-DOS, Novell DOS, OpenDOS and several others.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of the common usage, none of these systems were simply named &#8220;DOS&#8221; (a name given only to an unrelated IBM mainframe operating system in the 1960s). A number of unrelated, non-x86 microcomputer disk operating systems had &#8220;DOS&#8221; in their name, and are often referred to simply as &#8220;DOS&#8221; when discussing machines that use them (e.g. AmigaDOS, AMSDOS, ANDOS, Apple DOS, Atari DOS, Commodore DOS, CSI-DOS, ProDOS, and TRS-DOS). While providing many of the same operating system functions for their respective computer systems, programs running under any one of these operating systems would not run under others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DOS (Disk Operating System) was the first widely-installed operating system for personal computers. (Earlier, the same name had been used for an IBM operating system for a line of business computers.)<\/p>\n<p>The first personal computer version of DOS, called PC-DOS, was developed for IBM by Bill Gates and his new Microsoft Corporation. He retained the rights to market a Microsoft version, called MS-DOS. PC-DOS and MS-DOS are almost identical and most users have referred to either of them as just &#8220;DOS.&#8221; DOS was (and still is) a non-graphical line-oriented command- or menu-driven operating system, with a relatively simple interface but not overly &#8220;friendly&#8221; user interface.<\/p>\n<div class=\"apply\">\n<h3>Apply for Computer Fundamentals Certification Now!!<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Certified-computer-fundamentals-ms-office-professional-vs-1021\">http:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/Certified-computer-fundamentals-ms-office-professional-vs-1021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/ms-office-professional\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Go back to Tutorial<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Certify and Increase Opportunity. Be Govt. 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