DOS (Disk Operating System) was developed by the Microsoft Corporation, as the standard operating system for use with IBM personal computers. It controls the basic functions of the computer, and is especially handy for working with data stored on disks. The DOS system resides on diskette (3.5" or 5.25") and the system files may be transferred to a hard disk unit. An operating system is a program that allows competing programs to share the resources of the …showed first 75 words of 472 total…

…showed last 75 words of 472 total…device drivers are automatically loaded by MSDOS and are an integral part of it. MSDOS supports installable device drivers. These are device drivers that support additional hardware added to the computer, and are loaded at boot time. Examples of installable device drivers are CDROM's, mice, plotters etc. When MSDOS boots, it looks for a file called config.sys in the root directory. This file specifies which device drivers to install and where they are found.