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| Newer page: | version 4 | Last edited on Friday, October 4, 2002 3:15:07 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Friday, July 26, 2002 12:24:09 am | by PaulMacDonald | Revert |
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__D__enial __O__f __S__ervice%%%
+Usually written "DoS" - see DenialOfService%%%
!!!OR%%%
-__D__isk __O__perating __S__ystem
+__D__isk __O__perating __S__ystem. 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.
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+MS-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...
