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application: A software that allows you to perform useful functions and create results you can use in your personal or business life.
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boot disk: Drive C: if ODS is installed on your hard drive, or it can be a bootable floppy.
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bootstrap loader: A small program in the ROM BIOS and performs to read the first sector of the active partition into memory.
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cluster: the minimum space that can be given to a file
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cold boot: turn on the power switch of the pc
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Conventional memory: only the first 640KB of address space to be RAM used as the workspace for the operating system and the application programes and data.
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DOS prompt: Consists of, at minimum, the drive letter followed by a blinking cursor, indicating that the comand interpreter is open for business.
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Driver: A special program that works with an OS to allow use of a particular piece of hardware.
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Extended partition: Contains one or more logitcal drives(D:, E:, and so on), each of which can use a portion of the partition.
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External command: A file stored on disk that contains instructions and has one of the following extensions: COM, EXE, or BAT.
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FAT: File allocation table. The component that DOS uses to create a map of where your files reside on disk.
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FAT16 file system: The FAT file system that DOS uses on a hard disk. The numbers refer to the size of each entry in the FAT table.
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FAT32 file system: The FAT file system that appeared in Windows 95 OEM Service Release version 2. It can use larger hard disk partitions and allocates disk space more efficiently.
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File attribute: Determine how DOS handles the file.
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Internal command: These commands reside within COMMAND.COM and are not stored as separate files on disk.
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Logical drive: A portion of a physical hard drive that appears to be a drive with a letter assigned to it.
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Parse: Divide the command into its components.
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Partition: An area of a physical hard disk that defines space to be used for file storage, which contains one or more logical drives.
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Primary partition: Contains only one logical drive (C:), which used the entire space of the primary partition.
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Root directory: The top-level directory, and the only one that the FORMAT command creates.
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Single-tasking: Run only one application program at a time.
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Startup disk: A floppy disk that contains all DOS required files.
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Syntax: A set of rules for correctly entering a specific command at the command line.
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TSR: Terminate and stay resident. DOS can have several drivers and small programs in memory at one time.
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Utility: A program that allows you to perform handy tasks, usually computer management functions or diagnostics.
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Warm boot: Use a key combination (CTRL+ALT+DELETE) to reboots DOS without a power-down and power-up cycle.