disk-operating system
91system disk — A hard or floppy disk that contains part or all of the operating system or other control program …
92System resource — A system resource is any part of a part of a computer system, such as disk drive space, memory capacity, or processor time that might be used by a computer program. This is allocated by operating system so that programs can run efficiently …
93diskoperating system — disk operating system n. DOS. * * * …
94Floppy disk — Floppy redirects here. For other uses, see Floppy (disambiguation). 8 inch, 5 1⁄4 inch, and 3 1⁄2 inch floppy disks …
95History of operating systems — The history of computer operating systems recapitulates to a degree the recent history of computer hardware. Operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the linkages needed… …
96IBM System/360 — The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a mainframe computer system family announced by IBM on April 7, 1964. It was the first family of computers making a clear distinction between architecture and implementation, allowing IBM to release a suite of… …
97Timeline of operating systems — This article presents a timeline of events in the history of computer operating systems from 1951 to the current day. For a narrative explaining the overall developments, see the History of operating systems. Contents 1 1950s 2 1960s 3 1970s …
98Disk-drive performance characteristics — are the attributes which control the time it takes to transfer (read or write) data between a computer and a data storage device (most typically disk storage) starting with the initial command from the computer or host until the storage device… …
99Basic Input Output System — Flash ROM mit Award BIOS AMIBIOS Als Basic Input Output System (BIOS) bezeichnet man die Firmware bei x86 PCs (für andere Systeme siehe unten im Kapitel …
100Flippy disk — A flippy disk (sometimes known as a flippy ) is a double sided 5¼ floppy disk, specially modified so that the two sides can be used independently (but not simultaneously) in single sided drives. Use of flippy disks was most common during the 8… …
