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| Newer page: | version 6 | Last edited on Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:51:41 am | by PhilHarper | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Friday, October 4, 2002 3:23:47 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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__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.
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...
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+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/
