2006-10-20 08:32:12 · 12 answers · asked by STEVEN 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
Well, like everyone else said -
Microsoft Disc Operating System.
Back in the day, that's how you got into a computer.
You'd use the DOSshell, which was just a black screen where you'd type in commands like C:\Programs\Lemmings.exe to get the game Lemmings to play.
Nowadays we have Windows, which makes everything a lot easier because all we have to do is point and click, but everything you click is linked to one of those commands!
2006-10-20 08:36:07 · answer #1 · answered by mulldacity 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
MicroSoft Disc Operating System, and it was NOT the first. In fact it was very late to market in 1981, when many other operating systems were in use: CP/M, which MS-DOS was reverse engineered from, Tandy's (Radio Shack) TR-DOS, Apple's DOS, were all out well before MS-DOS. MS-DOS was basically a copy of CP/M, and it was limited to 16-bit access, or 64K. Memory swapping got it up to 640K and eventually 1 MB of RAM. Many of the problems with MS-DOS caused Windows to be the problem filled OS it is today, since Windows was developed using MS-DOS. Early versions of Windows ran as a gui shell on top of MS-DOS, and even XP still shows it's ugly MS-DOS roots in its command line.
2006-10-20 15:47:42 · answer #2 · answered by nospamcwt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Microsoft Disk Operating System
2006-10-20 15:33:58 · answer #3 · answered by TagUrItNoImNot 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
the Microsoft Disk Operating System was the initial microsoft platform for running a PC. It later was the base progam that you could run Microsoft's early Windows 3.1 etc. Then MS used it to run behind Windows. Now it has been incorperated into Windows.
2006-10-20 15:44:04 · answer #4 · answered by joechem77 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MicroSoft Disc Operating System
2006-10-20 15:37:06 · answer #5 · answered by soccergirl3156 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
MicroSoft Disk Operating System
2006-10-20 15:33:41 · answer #6 · answered by isthisthingon79 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
DOS was the first operating system of them all. MS is coming from Microsoft if i can good remember, and that is because they got the license on it. i hope that is enough. aaaah an operating system is smth like Windows or Linux, it helpes your computer work. the difference between the last two and MS-DOS is that MS-DOS had no graphical support.
2006-10-20 15:37:57 · answer #7 · answered by deea x 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think it's Microsoft Disc Operating System.
2006-10-20 15:33:54 · answer #8 · answered by tumbleweed1954 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes its-
Microsoft Disc Operating System
2006-10-20 15:39:42 · answer #9 · answered by younas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is MicroSoft Disk Operating System.
2006-10-20 15:34:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋