DOS

The acronym DOS stands for disk operating system, an operating system component for computers that provides the abstraction of a file system resident on hard disk or floppy disk secondary storage. In some cases, the disk operating system was called DOS, and on the PC compatible platform, an entire family of operating systems was called DOS.

Related Topics:
Disk operating system - Operating system - Computer - File system - Hard disk - Floppy disk - Secondary storage - PC compatible

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