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What is DOS - Disk Operating System

DOS (Disk Operating System) is an operating system that runs from a hard disk drive. The term can also refer to a particular family of disk operating systems, most commonly MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System).
MS DOS

some new terms for starters

Operating System : It is a software which used to controll different hardware devices like monitor, Mouse , Keyboard and some other connected devices.( Every device which is having usb cable now a days can be controlled by using Different operating systems)

Disk - Here disk refers to Hard Disk Drive (HDD). This is where all your operating systems will store their programs and different softwares will run.

microsoft have their own Disk Operating System. alled as MS-DOS.

I guess if you purchase laptops before 2k17 or 2k16 companies will give preloaded DOS in your laptops. This OS can't do much tasks. Present generation uses Windows /Windows Server/ Linux/ Unix operating system for their needs.

check some of the DOS commands by using this link. DOS is nothing but command prompt.You can execute all DOS commands in your command prompt in modern systems.

To run commands in Windows system

Press Windows + R it will prompt windows run box then type cmd there
or
Search for command prompt in windows search bar

Sample commands :

  1. dir - list files in current directory

  2. dir /w - list files in five columns

  3. dir /p - list file in one page at a time

  4. md c:\vizag - this command will create a sub directory named vizag

  5. cd c:\students - changes control to subdirectory students

  6. rd c:\students - this command removed the directory students from hard disk

  7. del somefile.txt - this command will delete the file named somefile.txt in present directory

  8. ren file1 file2 - this will rename file1 to file2

  9. copy file1 file2 - copy file1 content to file2

  10. ver

  11. time

  12. date

  13. cls

  14. scandisk

  15. chkdsk

some of the commands used by differnent users. For more commands visit : https://kb.iu.edu/d/aerh
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