Location of OS

[sandman_bcc]

what can you tell me about the location of OS? please i need some help!

[AlaricD]

By location, do you mean where on the hard drive is it? Or are you asking where you can purchase Windows 3.1 or DOS?

DOS is usually in C:\DOS , with 2, sometimes 3, core parts in the root of C: : IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and sometimes COMMAND.COM.


Windows 3.1 is usually in the directory C:\WINDOWS .

As far as the location, such as where you can buy them, sometimes people sell legal, licensed copies on ebay.com, and you may also find one or the other sold by a vendor advertising on www.pricewatch.com .

[sandman_bcc]

where on the hard drive

[AlaricD]

Hopefully my above post has helped in that regard.

[markp62]

Not sure if you've ever used Win3.1 before. Your OS is Dos, Disk Operating System.
Windows 3.x is not the operating system. Windows became the OS with 95.
AlaricD's post has the location.

[Eeyore]

As pointed out by AlaricD, the operating system consists of:
C:\IO.SYS
C:\MSDOS.SYS
C:\COMMAND.COM
While competitive operating systems, such as Linux, may have different names, they must be located in the same part of the drive.

If you are having a problem, please tell us what it is.

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[tiberiuscan]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Eeyore
[B]As pointed out by AlaricD, the operating system consists of:
C:\IO.SYS
C:\MSDOS.SYS
C:\COMMAND.COM
While competitive operating systems, such as Linux, may have different names, they must be located in the same part of the drive.
[QUOTE]

No offense Eeyore but as a matter of clarification the files you mention are NOT the Operating system. Rather they are the first three programs run for the OS, in this case DOS as Markp62 and AlaricD point out. Granted DOS cannot run without them but they are not the Operating System per se.
On another note: Win 3x is a DOSSHELL program which runs on TOP of DOS and is not a substiute OS, as has also been pointed out, Win 95 was the first OS since DOS from Microsoft.

[AlaricD]

Originally posted by tiberiuscan

No offense Eeyore but as a matter of clarification the files you mention are NOT the Operating system. Rather they are the first three programs run for the OS, in this case DOS as Markp62 and AlaricD point out. Granted DOS cannot run without them but they are not the Operating System per se.
On another note: Win 3x is a DOSSHELL program which runs on TOP of DOS and is not a substiute OS, as has also been pointed out, Win 95 was the first OS since DOS from Microsoft.

Those three files constitute a major part of DOS. For one, the system won't boot without them, and for another, all the DOS internal commands (cd, del, and mkdir, for a few examples) are in command.com. The external commands won't function without a valid command interpreter.

The same tired argument again... Windows 3.1 is a graphical shell for DOS, but in many ways the same can be said for Windows 95. Windows 3.1 can be installed on a machine that only has the 3 DOS core files, since it provides HIMEM.SYS. Therefore, those 3 core files can be considered enough of an operating system to satisfy Windows 3.1's installation requirements.

And Windows NT predates Windows 95 by several years, it is Microsoft's first non-DOS OS (unless you count OS/2, which was co-developed by MS in its early years.)

[Eeyore]

tiberiuscan,

No offense Eeyore but as a matter of clarification the files you mention are NOT the Operating system.

Essentially the IO.SYS is the operating system. On earlier versions MSDOS.SYS was also part of that. COMMAND.COM is the user interface, the communications INTERPRETER. Although you need one by somebody, it can be another file.

My statement that it "may have different names" comes from the fact that systems such as Caldera's DR. DOS uses: ibmbio.com and ibmdos.com as the name for its operating system files, which as I understand, was the same used by early IBM operating systems.

Windows 3.1 is a graphical shell for DOS, but in many ways the same can be said for Windows 95.

You can boot Windows 95 to a command.com, start Windows 95, then exit to the command.com, just like Windows 3.1. Windows 95/98/ME will not run unless you boot with the IO.SYS.

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