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This made me question my belief that DOS is an operating system. If it cannot run programs with (fake) parallelism and doesn't have virtual memory...

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• zaat 5y ago
  Well, if it isn't operating system, than what is it exactly?
  • giantrobot 5y ago
    A runtime library.
  • hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
    A good base to develop an RTOS[0] for example with RTKernel[1] on some hardware. [0] https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Embedded_Systems/Common_RTOS/DOS https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Embedded_Systems/Common_RTOS/D... [1] http://www.on-time.com/rtkernel-dos.htm http://www.on-time.com/rtkernel-dos.htm