Ms-dos
From Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook
- Microsoft Disk Operating System.
- It was widely used in 1980s and early 1990.
- MS-DOS was first released in 1982 as MS-DOS 1.0.
- Microsoft stopped development in 2000.
- MS-DOS was also the underlying basic operating system on which early versions of Windows ran as a GUI.
- Under MS-DOS a batch file is a text file containing a series of commands intended to be executed by the command interpreter called command.com or cmd.exe.
- A batch file is similar to a shell script.
- Linux have a similar type of file called a shell script.
