Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote:
>   MS-DOS sounds like "to handle the details of the operation of the
> hardware. This relieves application programs from having to manage these
> details and makes it easier to write applications." ?
>
>   Haha.
>   MS-DOS was nothing but an application launcher, which kept some routines
> in memory for the application to call if it wanted. After the application
> launched, it had absolute control of the machine. Basically the application
> became the de-facto "operating system", if we can call it that.
>
>   Calling MS-DOS an operating system is akin to calling grub an operating
> system.

Indeed.

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