disk operating system
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It took him less than half an hour to familiarize himself with the TRS-80 disk operating system, the master program that tells a computer how to store and retrieve data.
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Lodged in a host computer, the typical virus takes temporary control of the computer's disk operating system.
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Microsoft developed the now famous disk operating system for the IBM-PC -- called DOS -- and later created the operating software for the next generation of IBM personal computers, the Personal System/2.
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In addition, the machine in its various configurations requires three different versions of IBM's somewhat intimidating disk operating system, PC-DOS.
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Apple has developed desktop computers that not only run its Macintosh software system but also use the same disk operating system -- or DOS -- used by IBM models.
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