A disk operating system (DOS) is a computer operating system that requires a disk or other direct-access storage device as secondary storage. A DOS provides...

that the operating system reads before any other part of the disk. Each partition then appears to the operating system as a distinct "logical" disk that uses...

This is a list of disk operating system (DOS) variants with DOS in their name. Many are (or where in the day of DOS) called simply DOS within the context...

A real-time operating system (RTOS) is an operating system (OS) for real-time computing applications that processes data and events that have critically...

operating systems, DOS is a platform-independent acronym for disk operating system, whose use predates the IBM PC. Dozens of other operating systems also...

Watch watchOS Apple TV tvOS Embedded operating systems bridgeOS Apple Vision Pro visionOS Embedded operating systems A/ROSE iPod software (unnamed embedded...

mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system and...

and pointing devices. FLEX is a disk-based operating system, using 256-byte sectors on soft-sectored floppies; the disk structure uses linkage bytes in...

GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System) is a fictional character from the video game series Portal. The character was created by Erik Wolpaw...

otherwise inaccessible since hardware for running a compatible disk operating system (DOS) is obsolete and generally unavailable today. It was first...

TRSDOS (which stands for the Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System) is the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of eight-bit Zilog Z80 microcomputers...

MDOS (short for Myarc Disk Operating System) is an operating system commercialized by Myarc. It was designed and implemented specifically for the Geneve...

(/ˌɛmˌɛsˈdɒs/ em-es-DOSS; acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly...

Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control...

Disk Operating System/360, also DOS/360, or simply DOS, is the discontinued first member of a sequence of operating systems for IBM System/360, System/370...

A boot disk is a removable digital data storage medium from which a computer can load and run (boot) an operating system or utility program. The computer...

Atari DOS is the disk operating system used with the Atari 8-bit computers. Operating system extensions loaded into memory were required in order for...

NTFS file system in the Windows NT family of operating systems, and the ODS-2 (On-Disk Structure-2) and higher levels of the Files-11 file system in OpenVMS...

bootable disk, with code that starts the operating system loading sequence, is not encrypted. Some hardware-based full disk encryption systems can truly...

for IBM Personal Computer Disk Operating System), also known as PC DOS or IBM DOS, is a discontinued disk operating system for the IBM Personal Computer...

Microcomputers) was the most popular operating system for microcomputers. Later, IBM bought the DOS (Disk Operating System) from Microsoft. After modifications...

marketed by Apple as meaning Professional Disk Operating System, and became the most popular operating system for the Apple II 10 months after its release...

instant system start-up. The Dragon 32/64 was capable of running multiple disk operating systems, and a range of popular games were ported to the system. Overall...

Disk Utility is a system utility for performing disk and disk volume-related tasks on the macOS operating system by Apple Inc. The functions currently...

due to the absence of an operating system. The only software that SCP could sell with the board was Microsoft's Standalone Disk BASIC-86, which Microsoft...

operating system of macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, audioOS, visionOS, and bridgeOS. It previously existed as an independent open-source operating...

wrong slot. The operating system boots automatically, loading drivers from devices on the serial bus (SIO). The disk operating system for managing floppy...

directory information for the operating system. The low-level format of floppy disks (and early hard disks) is performed by the disk drive's controller. For...

(IBM's Disk Operating System) GEORGE 1 & 2 for ICT 1900 series Mod 1 Mod 2 Mod 8 MS/8 (Richard F. Lary's DEC PDP-8 system) MSOS (Mass Storage Operating System)...

backups. Before hard disks became affordable to the general population, floppy disks were often used to store a computer's operating system (OS). Most home...