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Contents 1 Computing 2 Otherwise 2.1 Activism 2.2 Arts 2.3 Linguistic 2.4 Organisations 2.5 Science 3 See also

DOS is a family of operating systems for IBM PC-compatible computers.

DOS may also refer to:

[edit] Computing

DOS as a computer term may refer to:

• abbreviation for the term disk operating system
• 1966 IBM mainframe computer disk operating system DOS, later called DOS/360
• group of similar disk-based operating systems for several microcomputers based on the Intel 8086 family of microprocessors. None of these were named "DOS" alone, though they are collectively referred to by this name.
  • M-DOS (created 1979 a.k.a. MIDAS)
  • 86-DOS (a.k.a. QDOS, created 1980)
  • MS-DOS (created 1981)
  • IBM PC DOS (created 1981)
  • DOS Plus (created 1985)
  • DR-DOS (created 1988)
  • PTS-DOS (created 1991)
  • FreeDOS (created 1994)

• Other operating systems, unrelated to those above, where "Disk Operating System" was in the name:
  • AmigaDOS
  • AMSDOS
  • ANDOS
  • Apple DOS
  • Apple ProDOS
  • Atari DOS
  • Commodore DOS
  • CSI-DOS
  • DOS, an OS for Data General's 16-bit NOVA computers
  • IS-DOS
  • RDOS
  • TRS-DOS

• Other uses in computing:
  • Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, a video game for the Nintendo DS
  • Data over signalling, a telecommunications method for multiplexing data onto a signalling channel, instead of a bearer channel
  • Denial-of-service attack, a form of attack on a computer system or network, is commonly abbreviated in a way that only differs in capitalization: DoS
  • Final Fantasy I&II: Dawn of Souls, a remake of two first games of Final Fantasy series on Gameboy Advance

[edit] Otherwise

[edit] Activism

• Day of Silence

[edit] Arts

• David Ogden Stiers, American actor
• Dos (band), an American band that consists of the bass rock duo Mike Watt and Kira Roessler

[edit] Linguistic

• the Latin word for dowry
• the Spanish word for the number 2

[edit] Organisations

• Democratic Opposition of Serbia, a former multi-party political alliance in Serbia
• Directorate of Overseas Surveys, the United Kingdom's central survey and mapping organisation for British colonies and protectorates 1957–1984
• United States Department of State, the Cabinet-level agency in charge of the foreign affairs of the United States

[edit] Science

• Density of states, a property in condensed matter physics
• Diversity oriented synthesis, a strategy to improve the efficiency of chemical synthesis
• DOS (Russian-language acronym, variously translated as Long-Duration/Durable/Permanent Orbital Station), a designation for a series of Russian manned space stations, encompassing Salyut, the Mir Core Module, and Zvezda, a core module of the International Space Station.

[edit] See also

• Doss

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