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-An [Acronym] for
:
-
-__D__enial __O__f __S__ervice
%%%
-- 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]
+An [Acronym] with two different meanings
:
+;;
%%% DenialOfService : See that page.
Usually written "DoS".
+;;
%%% __D__isk __O__perating __S__ystem : The original OperatingSystem for [IBM]'s [PersonalComputer]s,
named after MicroComputer OperatingSystems 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].
