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-An [Acronym] for
:
+An [Acronym] with two different meanings
:
-__D__enial __O__f __S__ervice
%%%
-Usually written "
DoS" - see DenialOfService%%%
-!!!OR
%%%
-. Usually
named after the operating systems of 8bit micros, who'
s operating system
didn't include memory management, multiuser or multiprocessing
and only a thin abstraction if any over any hardware
, so
they only part of the Operating System that they actually implemented was the filesystem, hence, DOS
.
-
-(Microsoft DOS) was originally called QDOS, and was written in 2 weeks
. QDOS stands for "Quick and Dirty Operating System". Microsoft promised IBM that they would cheaply license them an OS - they bought the rights to QDOS and started hacking it up from there...
-%%%
-
-while DOS is now largly obsolete, there is a team of developers working to keep the platform alive, The
[FreeDOS] project can be found at
http://www.freedos.org/
-
-See also
[Loadlin
]
+
%%% DenialOfService :
+ See that page.
Usually written [
DoS].
+
%%% __D__isk __O__perating __S__ystem :
+ The original OperatingSystem for [IBM]'s [PersonalComputer]s,
named after MicroComputer [OperatingSystem]
s which typically had a thin hardware layer abstraction at best and
didn't include any multiuser or multitasking capabilities, nor
memory management. The [IBM] [DOS] does have process
and memory management capabilities
, but
they're
only very rudimentary
. See also [
MS-DOS]
. [FreeDOS |
http://www.freedos.org] is a
[Free
] clone.
