DOS is an Operating System known as disk operating system. it was originally developed for x86 based personal computer from IBM. this was developed by Microsoft and IBM parallel with the support Seattle computer in 1980's. this was first operating system used and accepted widely for personal computer till GUI based operating system was launched by Microsoft corporation.
It works as an interpreter between user and computer.it has command based prompt for user to tell computer what operation should be performed, MS-DOS provides various commands, tool and utilities to operate and manage computer. it converts English like commands submitted by user into machine language and after the computer has processed the information, returns the results to you in English.
With introduction of Graphical user interface operating system starting with Windows 3.x,9x, the popularity of MS-DOS went down and only expert user liked power and flexibility of it for doing some admin tasks. till windows version WindowsME used MS-DOS as core operating system and Graphical User Interface (GUI) running on top of MS-DOS. with the advent of Windows 95, 98, and ME the MS-DOS part was integrated, treating both operating systems as a complete package. The command line accessed the DOS command line (usually command.com), through a Windows module (winoldap.mod). but with advent of Windows NT ,windows 2000 and xp, windows introduced a new program to boot and manage computer called kernel and microsoft ceased further development of MS-DOS, but it kept MS-DOS like command line interpreter to kernel.
It works as an interpreter between user and computer.it has command based prompt for user to tell computer what operation should be performed, MS-DOS provides various commands, tool and utilities to operate and manage computer. it converts English like commands submitted by user into machine language and after the computer has processed the information, returns the results to you in English.
With introduction of Graphical user interface operating system starting with Windows 3.x,9x, the popularity of MS-DOS went down and only expert user liked power and flexibility of it for doing some admin tasks. till windows version WindowsME used MS-DOS as core operating system and Graphical User Interface (GUI) running on top of MS-DOS. with the advent of Windows 95, 98, and ME the MS-DOS part was integrated, treating both operating systems as a complete package. The command line accessed the DOS command line (usually command.com), through a Windows module (winoldap.mod). but with advent of Windows NT ,windows 2000 and xp, windows introduced a new program to boot and manage computer called kernel and microsoft ceased further development of MS-DOS, but it kept MS-DOS like command line interpreter to kernel.
