DOS is an operating system right......? can i run a movie in my system with DOS?
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DOS stands for disk operating system.  It was used for booting the computer and preformig low level tasks up until windows 98.  However DOS is not used anymore.  The command prompt window that looks like DOS is not actually DOS.  its just a shell that can be used for executing DOS and DOS like commands.
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GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection provides a completely free compiler on many platforms, including DOS.  Best of all, it is completely cross platform, so the code you write for DOS can also (theoretically) be cross compiled for Windows, Linux, etc.\n\nOh, and it is completely FREE
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That's going to be pretty tough.  ME is still tied to DOS.  XP doesn't use it at all and that is part of the reason it's fast.  If you want to speed up your machine, install more memory or install XP.
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I haven't played a DOS game since the first Doom but would it not be easier to install Windows98 and use the dos from there? Seems like hardware config in DOS would be nearly impossible.
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It can run MS-DOS programs, but it might not run them well, especially an assembler program because the program is designed to run commands on the basic level to interact with command.com (MS-DOS), but XP doesn't actually have a command.com.  It has the NT kernel.  All it does it try to interpret the MS-DOS commands.  You may not get good results no matter what you try.
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A text file with the .BAT extention. \n\nIt will then be executable, and run the commands listed in the file in order via DOS prompt.
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reboot then change your display settings in the control panel.  if it still won't change then it has nothing to do with dos, it is your video driver that needs to be updated and installed.
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you can still run your game or infact any software. Jus follow these instructions:\n\n1. Install the software.\n2. In the "Program Files" folder find the executible file that starts the software.\n3. Right Clik on it and goto\nProperties>>Compatibility \nCheck on compatibility mode and choose your operating system.\n\nNow your software will work as if it was workin on Windows 98 or 95.
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Network Operating System?\nNot Otherwise Stated (or Specified) ?
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Special effects are up to your imagination and are rarely limited to the technology (programming language) you use. You can make FX even in DOS :)\n\nLet your screen be cleared in a coil or something like that for example - it is cool :)
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If you mean DOS as operating system, email bombing is not OS-specific. If you mean DoS as Deny Of Service, email not from this area.
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I have been running a 64 bit version of XP for several months now.\n\nIt runs fine. The only issue is software developers are just now starting to take advantage of the 64 bit architecture. As they continue to write 64 bit applications it's benefits will multiply greatly.\n\nNot many people today have ever used MS-DOS. Some of the old timers may remember typing commands into DOS but the majority of computer users today were raised on Windows.
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MS-DOS was way better than windows. Everything was easy to do and easy to find. And the old computers of the time running DOS ran faster than todays computers running XP
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Don't do it.  Use 2000 for everything. \nYeah, there might be a couple of games that play in 98 that don't work in 2000.  \nBut having 2 operating systems will drive you nuts.
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(m)\n\nDisk Operating System (specifically) and disk operating system (generically), most often abbreviated as DOS (not to be confused with the DOS family of disk operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform), refer to operating system software used in most computers that provides the abstraction and management of secondary storage devices and the information on them (e.g., file systems for organizing files of all sorts). Such software is referred to as a disk operating system when the storage devices it manages are made of rotating platters (such as hard disks or floppy disks).\n\nIn the early days of microcomputing, memory space was often limited, so the disk operating system was an extension of the operating system. This component was only loaded if it was needed. Otherwise, disk-access would be limited to low-level operations such as reading and writing disks at the sector-level.\n\nIn some cases, the disk operating system component (or even the operating system) was known as DOS.\n\nSometimes, a disk operating system can refer to the entire operating system if it is loaded off a disk and supports the abstraction and management of disk devices. An example is DOS/360. On the PC compatible platform, an entire family of operating systems was called DOS
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the operating system is the program or code that allows the hardware know and understand how to execute programs, read and write data, and how to do the functions that make a computer work; disk management, memory management, video, sound, networking, processor optimization.  over the past 50 years, we started with OS that worked on mainframes, then minicomputers and then pc.  up till this point, the seller of the hardware usally sold the OS to work with their special equipment.  Whe the PC came out, it was a small enough machine in both price and pieces of hardware, that more programmers could write the OS to meet special needs that they felt were lacking in other offerings.  Microsoft came out with dos, ibm had a dos, DR DOS had a dos offering, and there was antoher commerical offering called cpm that was very dos like. But Microsoft was able to work with the different PC makers to have their dos preinstalled so they became dominant.  Then Macs came out and the windows gui became a hot topic, and Microsoft came out with Windows,  there were some other PC system houses that tried to comeout with a Windows varient, but by this time, the fact that most people were wanting systems that were compatible(moving files, buying application) again Microsoft came to dominate the PC world.\n\nThose individuals that wanted more control of their systems and wanted to be able to tweak the options helped bring UNIX and then LINUX to the pc world.  All of the various versions of these programs( and there are hundereds) have a basic kennel part of the code that is the same for all versions (this is the basic code on how to read disk and memory), but then individuals can modify the various drivers other parts of the user interface etc.  Those that use the UNIX varients feel that they are keeping computing "pure" and not beholding to the big corps "microsoft" but it does add confusion to the marketplace.
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What a great question!\n\nYou know, I used to write batch files for everything under the sun back in the old DOS 6 / Windows 3.11 days, but somehow got away form doing so as Windows evolved -- I wasn't even sure it still supported batch files!  But a little digging turns up the fact that yes it does.  It appears that what you are after is a "script file" (which seems to do within Windows what the Batch files do within DOS), though I'm not yet sure if that denotes a truly different type of file or if it is just a different name for the same thing.\n\nAnyway, here are a few interesting looking links I found:\nhttp://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/batch_tutorial.html\nhttp://labmice.techtarget.com/scripting/default.htm\nhttp://www.onesmartclick.com/programming/batch-files.html\n\nSorry I couln't be more help than that, but hopefully it gets you started in the right direction.  Thanks for asking the question, it gave me something new to go learn about!