Disk Opearting System

DISK OPEARTING
SYSTEM
DOS, WIDOWS 98, MS
POWERPOINT
OUR TEAM MEMBERS
• GULSHAN CHAWLA
• LOKENDRA BHATI
• NUPOOR SHUKLA
• PULKIT SAHNI
• SANGYA PARASHAR
• SANJAY
OPERATING SYSTEM
• When the computer starts, it starts the operating
system that takes the control of the machine. An
Operating System is a set of programs that help in
controlling and managing the Hardware and the
Software resources of a computer system
• A good operating system should have the following features;
1. Help in the loading of programs and data from external
sources into the internal memory before they are executed.
2. Help programs to perform input/output operations, such as;

– Print or display the result of a program on the printer or the
screen.
– Store the output data or programs written on the computer
in storage device.
– Communicate the message from the system to the user
through the VDU.
– Accept input from the user through the keyboard or mouse
DISK OPERATING SYSTEM
• On August 12, 1981, IBM introduced its new revolution in a
box, the "Personal Computer" complete with a brand new
operating system from Microsoft and a 16-bit computer
operating system called MS-DOS 1.0.
• The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based

on QDOS, the "Quick and Dirty Operating System" written by
Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, for their
prototype Intel 8086 based computer.
DOS VERSIONS
• 12/1980 QDOS
• 07/1981 86-DOS
• 09/1982 MS-DOS 1.25
• 03/1983 MS-DOS 2.0
• 11/1983 MS-DOS 2.01
• 12/1983 MS-DOS 2.11
• 09/1984 MS-DOS 3.0
• 11/1984 MS-DOS 3.1
• 04/1986 MS-DOS 3.2
• 04/1987 MS-DOS 3.3
• 04/1988 MS-DOS 3.31
• 07/1988 MS-DOS 4.0
• 11/1988 MS-DOS 4.01
• 04/1989 MS-DOS 4.01a
• 04/1991 MS-DOS 5.0
• 03/1993 MS-DOS 6.0
• 11/1993 MS-DOS 6.2
• 04/1994 MS-DOS 6.22
• 08/1995 MS-DOS 7.0
WHAT DOS IS ALL ABOUT
• In the early days of computers, there were no disk
drives; delay lines, punched cards, paper tape, magnetic
tape, magnetic drums, were used instead. And in the early
days of microcomputers, paper tape or audio cassette tape or
nothing were used instead. In the latter case, program and
data entry was done at front panel switches directly into
memory or through a computer terminal / keyboard,
sometimes controlled by a read-only
memory (ROM) BASIC interpreter; when power was turned
off after running the program, the information so entered
vanished
• Both hard disks and floppy disk drives require software to
manage rapid access to block storage of sequential and other
data. When microcomputers rarely had expensive disk drives
of any kind, the need to have software to manage such
devices (the disks) carried much status. To have one or the
other was a mark of distinction and prestige, and so was
having the Disk sort of an Operating System.
The
original
MS-DOS
advertise
ment in
1981.
DEFINITION OF DOS
• As the name suggests, the operating System is used for
operating the system or the computer. It is a set of computer
programs and also known as DOS (Disk Operating System).
The main functions of DOS are to manage disk files, allocate
system resources according to the requirement. DOS provides
features essential to control hardware devices such as
Keyboard, Screen, Disk Devices, Printers, Modems and
programs.
• Basically, DOS is the medium through which the user and
external devices attached to the system communicate with
the system. DOS translate the command issued by the user in
the format that is understandable by the computer and
instruct computer to work accordingly. It also translates the
result and any error message in the format for the user to
understand.

FEATURES OF DOS
• As with any other operating system, its function is to oversee
the operation of the system by providing support for executing
programs, controlling I/O devices, handling errors, and
providing the user interface.
• MS-DOS is a disk-based, single-user, single-task operating

system. These qualities make it one of the easiest disk
operating systems to understand
• The main portions of MS-DOS are the IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and

COMMAND.COM files
• IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS are special, hidden system files
• The IO.SYS file moves the system’s basic I/O functions into
memory and then implements the MS-DOS default control
programs, referred to as device drivers, for various hardware
components.
• These include the following:
 The boot disk drive
 The console display and keyboard
 The system’s time-of-day clock
 The parallel and serial communications
• The MSDOS.SYS file provides default support features for
software applications.
• These features include the following:
 Memory management
 Character input and output
 Real-time clock access
 File and record management
 Execution of other programs
• The COMMAND.COM command interpreter accepts
commands issued through the keyboard, or other input device,
and carries them out according to the commands definition
UTILITIES OF DOS
 When MS-DOS was developed, it was designed to be a simple,
stand-alone, operating system. To that end, it didn’t contain any
network software, except SHARE.EXE.
 SHARE.EXE was designed as an add-on to popular networking
software that allowed two users to edit the same file at the same
time on a network
 Without SHARE.EXE , when a second user tried to open a file that
the first user had opened, they got an error message. With
SHARE.EXE installed, when the second user tried to open the file,
they received a message saying that the file was being used by
someone else and offering to provide a copy of the file.
 Another aspect of networking with MS-DOS is that DOS can
run client software for Novell and Microsoft networks. Most
client software for DOS falls into the category of redirection
software. This software redirects requests bound for local
resources out to network resources.
 For example, with network client software installed, you

could point a DOS drive letter to some disk space on the
network. When you saved a file to that drive letter, you were
really saving that file to a server. But, as far as DOS was
concerned, it was accessing a local drive letter.

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2. Help programs to perform input/output operations, such as;

• The "Microsoft Disk Operating System" or MS-DOS was based

• MS-DOS is a disk-based, single-user, single-task operating

• The main portions of MS-DOS are the IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and

 For example, with network client software installed, you

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