What is the purpose of Dos?
2006-11-13 18:16:57 · 10 answers · asked by stephen.hallett3@btinternet.com 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
It's a command-line based operating system.
It allows you to control your computer using text commands (like in Unix), rather than a GUI (Graphical User Interface) like Windows.
2006-11-13 18:22:00 · answer #1 · answered by Che jrw 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is what it is--Disk Operating System. This is the first thing the geeks played around with when coming up with a practical PC. You needed to be able to save information and talk to the computer and there weren't many practical ways to save lots of information that you could retrieve easily, which you have to do in order to run programs. DOS allowed this to be done on relatively compact systems, while the commercial units used refrigerator-sized hard drives with multiple precision machined plates. The operating system eventually had a GUI (graphical user interface) laid over top of it. That's windows. You can still use DOS, but it's a virtual DOS. The original program is buried underneath everything we're used to using now. I have a computer that needs fixing (mostly good for old games) that runs Windows 3.1. There's a file on it named something like old_dos_1. I'd never delete it because I don't know what might happen.
2006-11-13 18:43:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its a command-line operating system. Very useful for programmers, developers, network admins who are experts in the line commands. Runs much faster and gives more power if you know how to use it.
I find my self using it quite a lot, being a computer engineer. Sometimes even for searching for files. Quite often Windows search crashes or takes ages, cause the GUI consumes resources. However going to ms dos and wirte dir /s
2006-11-13 18:26:47 · answer #3 · answered by Guybrush 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dos was a command prompt operating system using "syntax" or language that was very specific and easy to make mistakes with.
if u really care rent the movie or go to the library and get "The pirates of Silicon Valley".
it's all about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. The Founders of Microsoft and Apple respectively. The graphic interface(clicking on icons on your desktop) we all use now was actually given to apple by Xerox.
2006-11-13 18:24:05 · answer #4 · answered by jawtar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MS-DOS (for Microsoft Disk working equipment) is an working equipment commercialized via Microsoft. It replaced into the main severely used member of the DOS family contributors of working structures and replaced into the dominant working equipment for the computing device properly suited platform throughout the time of the Nineteen Eighteen Eighties. some people will inform you that it is not yet in all certainty it is. properly there you flow.
2016-12-14 06:50:39 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's actually the Operating System that's under your Windows, meaning that the graphics you see in Windows are a set of complicated commands that's translated to DOS for its interaction with the hardware.
2006-11-13 18:27:36 · answer #6 · answered by justdennis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dos known as Disk Operating System which is installed by the manufacturer of the machine.. it is primary operating system for the computer.. intially before installing windows you have to work in MS-DOS promt to configure your pc.. also you can handle all operations of computer with DOS..
2006-11-13 18:27:21 · answer #7 · answered by Nishu 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Believe it or not, it was what we once used when we didn't have MS Windows. It's an operating system.
2006-11-13 18:18:20 · answer #8 · answered by bogus_dude 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Microsoft Disk Operating System" - what do you think it's for?! ;)
It's an OS. For more information on what an OS is - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system
Rawlyn.
2006-11-13 21:39:13 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
it was the first of many steps that made bill gates rich
2006-11-13 18:21:44 · answer #10 · answered by rottie_mama1969 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋