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What is Dos Operating

System?
MS-DOS

MS-DOS is known as Microsoft Disk Operating
system and it is developed, created and designed by
Microsoft Corporation USA who owned by Bill
Gates the richest man on the planet.
This Operating System or commonly called as OS
was developed in 1981 and the first version was
named as Dos 1.0.

MS-DOS is a NON GUI [Graphical User Interface]
where all the activities such as selecting navigation,
dropping and all the other computer activities are
done by basic dos commands like copy, xcopy , del ,
deltree and so on.
MS-DOS is a command line operating system where
all desired result are obtained by using simple dos
commands
There are basically two versions of
MS-DOS
(Dos Operating System)

PC-Dos ::

MS-Dos ::
PC-Dos

Above Both versions of Dos Operating System have
been developed by Microsoft Corporation, here
PCDos was specially developed for IBM Personal
computer and MSDos was developed and written for
Personal Computer [PC] or NON-IBM Personal
Computers.

As there are no such differences found in both


versions of Dos Operating Systems.
MS-Dos

Disk operating system (Dos) is a menu driven
operating system which is simpler to use but is not
as user friendly as windows. In Todays world MS-
DOS is not used, windows operating system has
replaced msdos. Still some people use dos operating
system as a command line for certain purpose.
Basically there are two types of
Basic Dos Commands

Internal Dos Commands.

External Dos Commands.


Internal Dos Commands

Internal Dos :: These commands are commonly
executed from a file called as command.com which is
generally stored in root directory or c: or c drive.
External Dos Commands

External Dos Commands : External Dos Commands
are those basic dos commands which require
external supporting files which may be present on
the bootable disk or hard disk, without supporting
files you cannot run or execute this commands
References ::

http://www.chtips.com/msdos/what-is-dos-operating-system
http://www.chtips.com/msdos/basic-dos-commands

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