hpr3410 :: Operating Systems
Here we look at what an operating system is, and how they developed historically.
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DOS, early PC computing, operating systems.
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DOS.
DOS is a general acronym for "Disk Operating System", though it came to refer to the operating system used in the IBM PC, particularly Microsoft's MS-DOS.
While the very first computers did not have operating systems, the lack of them made computers less efficient and more difficult to use. We look at the general history of operating systems before getting into the history of DOS. Then we look at some general principles of what operating systems do.
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- https://www.ahuka.com/dos-lessons-for-self-study-purposes/dos-lesson-1-operating-systems/