DOS ain't dead

definitions again (Developers)

posted by ecm  , Düsseldorf, Germany, 19.03.2024, 14:15

> DOS is a "disk operating system". It is an operating system that does the
> basic I/O functions so that the programs don't need to do those themselves.
> DOS handles the filesystems and console I/O without restricting what the
> programs themselves can do.
>
> Most DOS operating systems on x86 have the same standardized ABI as DR-DOS,
> MS-DOS, FreeDOS and others.

I refer to systems with this common ABI as 86-DOS systems because they're DOS systems implemented in the Real/Virtual 86 Mode of x86 machines.

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Complete thread:

• definitions again - kerravon, 19.03.2024, 07:28 (Developers)
  • definitions again - samwdpckr, 19.03.2024, 13:15
    • definitions again - ecm, 19.03.2024, 14:15
    • definitions again - kerravon, 19.03.2024, 15:52
  • definitions again - marcov, 19.03.2024, 20:11
    • definitions again - kerravon, 20.03.2024, 09:39
      • definitions again - marcov, 20.03.2024, 12:53
        • definitions again - kerravon, 20.03.2024, 13:36
  • definitions again - Oso2k, 21.03.2024, 01:00
  • definitions again - Oso2k, 21.03.2024, 01:06
    • definitions again - kerravon, 21.03.2024, 10:53
      • definitions again - Oso2k, 22.03.2024, 18:30
        • definitions again - marcov, 22.03.2024, 22:49
      • definitions again - Rugxulo, 11.04.2024, 02:48
        • definitions again - kerravon, 11.04.2024, 04:03
          • definitions again - Rugxulo, 13.04.2024, 05:55
            • definitions again - kerravon, 13.04.2024, 08:53
              • definitions again - boeckmann, 14.04.2024, 16:12
                • definitions again - kerravon, 20.04.2024, 03:09
                  • definitions again - tom, 20.04.2024, 09:50
                    • definitions again - kerravon, 20.04.2024, 10:57
                      • definitions again - tom, 21.04.2024, 11:27
                        • definitions again - kerravon, 21.04.2024, 15:18
                          • definitions again - tom, 21.04.2024, 21:20
                            • definitions again - kerravon, 22.04.2024, 02:48
                            • definitions again - kerravon, 22.04.2024, 03:37
                              • definitions again - Rugxulo, 23.04.2024, 02:13
                                • definitions again - kerravon, 23.04.2024, 10:04
                        • definitions again - kerravon, 23.04.2024, 11:50
                          • definitions again - Rugxulo, 23.04.2024, 13:03
        • definitions again - bretjohn, 11.04.2024, 16:34
          • definitions again - glennmcc, 11.04.2024, 18:15