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MS-DOS [13 records]

Record 1 2023-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Life Cycle (Informatics)
DEF

A keyboard key or key combination that causes a specified action to occur regardless of what else the computer is currently doing. The term is most widely used in relation to terminate and stay resident(TSR) programs in the MS-DOS environment.

CONT

... the most important information is made most easily accessible, usually by use of a single key press that is advertised at the bottom of the screen. If it becomes cumbersome to show all information-accessing keys, then a single key press to a menu is appropriate.

OBS

Example of a keyboard shortcut: ALT+F+S opens the File menu and calls the Save function.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cycle de vie (Informatique)
DEF

Touche ou combinaison de touches sur le clavier d'un ordinateur qui a été programmée pour provoquer un changement immédiat de l'environnement d'exploitation, telle que l'exécution d'un programme en mode fenêtre (pop-up program).

DEF

[...] commande pouvant être saisie rapidement au clavier, par exemple en appuyant sur une touche de fonction ou en entrant une combinaison de touches.

CONT

raccourcis clavier : pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • raccourcis clavier

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciclo de vida (Informática)
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Record 2 2021-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Simulation (Cybernetic Systems)
  • Computer Display Technology
DEF

A button, keystroke or combination of keys that will replace windows unrelated to work with an image or window that looks like work.

CONT

A few factors likely made boss keys within games more common in the 1980s and early 1990s than they are today. Back then, most MS-DOS PCs [Microsoft disk operating system for the personal computers] were single-tasking machines, so you couldn’t quickly Alt+Tab away from the game to another window like you can today. Also, The Encyclopedia of Video Games speculates that boss keys were more popular when PC clones were more expensive and more likely to be located at work than in the home.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Simulation (Systèmes cybernétiques)
  • Techniques d'affichage (Ordinateurs)
DEF

Bouton, touche ou combinaison de touches permettant de remplacer des fenêtres n'ayant aucun lien au travail avec une image ou une fenêtre qui a l'air du travail.

Spanish

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Record 3 2019-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
CONT

If you tell the system to load the compression driver into upper memory[, ] this will save 110 KB [kilobytes] of conventional memory when you are running in MS-DOS [Microsoft disk operating system] mode. However, the 110 KB of upper memory will force other drivers into conventional memory, causing the free conventional memory to decrease.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
CONT

El comprobador del registro de Windows puede requerir 580 KB [kilobytes] o más de memoria convencional libre para completar el proceso de reparación. Si aparece un mensaje de error de "memoria insuficiente", optimice la memoria convencional libre.

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Record 4 2019-01-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
CONT

MS-DOS [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] applications must be specifically written to take advantage of expanded memory. Windows applications do not use expanded memory; 80386 and newer processors can emulate expanded memory by using memory managers...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Memorias (Computadoras)
CONT

Windows 2.1 fue lanzado en dos diferentes versiones: Windows/386 empleando Modo 8086 virtual para realizar varias tareas de varios programas de DOS [sistema operativo de disco], y el modelo de memoria paginada para emular la memoria expandida utilizando la memoria extendida disponible.

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Record 5 2018-06-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Reports
  • IT Security
OBS

The Virus Information Summary List, VSUM, represents the cumulative knowledge produced by an ongoing research effort in the detection, identification, and removal of MS-DOS viruses. It will help [users] understand what a specific virus does, how it activates, how it affects your system, and more important, how to get rid of it.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de rapports
  • Sécurité des TI
DEF

Guide faisant l'inventaire de tous les virus en circulation et qui décrit les moyens de prévention et les méthodes de détection et d'élimination utilisés dans la lutte antivirus.

Spanish

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Record 6 2010-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

Unlike most of the MS-DOS viruses, the 5120 Virus does not intercept disk write errors when attempting to infect programs. Thus, infected systems may notice disk write error messages when no access should be occurring for a drive, such as the C : hard disk partition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Contrairement à la plupart des virus du MS-DOS, le Virus 5120 n'intercepte pas les erreurs d'écriture de disque en essayant d'infecter les programmes. Ainsi, des messages d'erreur d'écriture de disque sont affichés lorsque l'accès à une unité comme la partition du disque dur C: est refusé.

Spanish

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Record 7 2004-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
DEF

The system software used by a computer to control resources and communicate with application software.

OBS

DOS is sometimes called PC-DOS to differentiate it from MS-DOS, the Microsoft version for non-IBM PCs. Both products are almost identical and both are referred to as DOS.

Key term(s)
  • disc operating system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
DEF

Système d'exploitation chargé depuis un disque quand le système est démarré au réinitialisé.

DEF

Logiciel gérant le stockage et la recherche d'informations sur disques.

OBS

Système d'exploitation : Ensemble des programmes de base d'un ordinateur permettant l'utilisation des services disponibles et assurant la gestion des travaux, la gestion des entrées-sorties, l'affectation des ressources aux différents processus, l'accès aux fichiers et aux bibliothèques de programmes, la gestion de la place en mémoire.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas operativos (Soporte lógico)
DEF

Sistema operativo almacenado en disco, más bien que en la memoria principal, cuando la computadora (ordenador) está trabajando. Es un sistema operativo que utiliza discos como su medio de almacenamiento secundario.

CONT

Típicamente, el sistema operativo de disco regula la asignación de espacio, supervisa los archivos, y administra otras funciones de control asociadas con el almacenamiento de disco.

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Record 8 2004-09-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Operating Systems (Software)
  • Computer Programs and Programming
DEF

A program which comes with MS-DOS that potentially simplifies things you commonly do with MS-DOS, such as running applications and managing files and directories.

OBS

However, many vendors pre-set their computers to run the DOS Shell automatically, and this tends to confuse the computer novice.

OBS

DOS: disk operating system.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes d'exploitation (Logiciels)
  • Programmes et programmation (Informatique)
OBS

DOS : système d'exploitation de disque.

Spanish

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Record 9 2004-09-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Codes (Software)
CONT

A code page is a table that defines the character set you are using. A character set is a country-specific or language-specific group of characters that are translated from the code page table and displayed by your screen or printer. Each code page character set contains 256 characters. An example of a character set is the set of letters, numbers, and symbols(such as accent marks) used by French-Canadians. MS-DOS 3. 3 supports five different code pages : 437-United States code page. 850-Multilingual code page. This code page includes all character for most languages of European, North American, and South American countries. 860-French-Canadian code page. 865-Nordic code page. This code page includes all characters for the Norwegian and Danish languages.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Codes (Logiciels)
DEF

Table de caractères différente de la table ASCII, et adaptée à divers langages.

OBS

Nouvelle fonction du MS-DOS 3.3.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Códigos (Soporte lógico)
CONT

La página de códigos preparada contiene un conjunto de caracteres apropiado para lenguajes internacionales.

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Record 10 2001-11-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Informatics
DEF

Time-swapping between the tasks, by a processor.

CONT

An alternative to multitasking. Here multiple tasks are loaded into computer memory, where you can switch between them with a keystroke. Only one task, the foreground task, is running at any time-all the background tasks remain in suspended animation until you switch to them. The advantage is that you can switch between them instantly, and while they are the foreground task, they run at full speed. However, each task must have a full memory image, so you must have lots of memory on your system. The new MS-DOS 5. 0 has a task-switcher in its shell.

Key term(s)
  • task switcher

French

Domaine(s)
  • Informatique

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Informática
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Record 11 2001-09-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • IT Security
CONT

Crackerjack will run on MS-DOS.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité des TI
CONT

Crackerjack tourne sur MS-DOS.

Spanish

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Record 12 1997-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Biochemistry
  • Genetics
CONT

A computer program, which runs on MS-DOS personal computers, is described that assists in the design of synthetic genes coding for proteins. The goal of the program is the design of a gene which(i) contains as many unique restriction sites as possible and(ii) uses a specific codon usage. The gene designed according to the criteria above is(i) suitable for ’modular mutagenesis’ experiments and(ii) optimized for expression. The program ’reverse-translates’ protein sequences into degenerated DNA sequences, generates a map of potential restriction sites and locates sequence positions where unique restriction sites can be accommodated. The nucleic acid sequence is then ’refined’ according to a specific codon usage to remove any degeneration. Unique restriction sites, if potentially present, can be ’forced’ into the degenerated nucleic acid sequence by using ’priority codes’ assigned to different restriction sequences.

OBS

SeqAnalRef. Sequence Analysis Bibliographic Reference Data Bank. Release: 67.0 / February 1996 in Internet at the address mentioned in b.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biochimie
  • Génétique
CONT

[...] les chimistes ont déjà créé des molécules capables de s'assembler et de se répliquer elles-mêmes - et de nouveaux types de microorganismes, totalement différents de ceux qui existent aujourd'hui. Ceux-ci intégreront des gènes synthétiques et seront améliorés par sélection accélérée, selon le principe des mécanismes naturels de l'évolution.

Spanish

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Record 13 1994-06-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Computer Memories
CONT

... expanded memory device drivers [in PC-DOS],... expanded memory drivers [in MS-DOS]....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mémoires (Informatique)

Spanish

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