what is ms dos

what is ms dos

MS-DOS developed by Microsoft Corporation became the de facto standard for machines designed with Intel processors. IBM selected MS-DOS for its PC’s. This established the popularity of MS-DOS.

DOS is helpful to organize disks and use them efficiently, It helps to create and manage files on disks, make copies of them or remove unwanted files from the disks.

MS-DOS 5.0 comes equipped with a graphical user interface (GUI) called the DOS Shell. This interface helps the user with everyday tasks such as starting a program or formatting a floppy disk. With the GUI the desired task can be easily selected and started with the mouse by just pointing to the item on the screen and clicking the mouse button.

The DOS shell also provides an overview of the contents of the hard disk and floppy disk any time. Several programs can be started at once but only single program runs at a time, the others are suspended.

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