Talk:Disk operating system

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[edit] DOS component separate in early days of computing?

The article now says "In the early days of computing, memory space was often limited, so the disk operating system was an extension of the operating system. This component was only loaded if it was needed. Otherwise, disk-access would be limited to low-level operations such as reading and writing disks at the sector-level." Is that referring to the "early days of computing" in the sense of the 1950's and early-to-mid 1960's, or to the "early days of computing" in the sense of the early days of microcomputing? DOS/360 was a full OS, not an extension to a base OS, loaded only when needed. Guy Harris 20:50, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

This refers to the early days of microcomputing (home computers). I have changed computing to microcomputing in the paragraph you quoted. I have also made more of a distinction between operating-system components called "disk operating systems" and operating systems called "Disk Operating System" (eg. DOS/360). Ae-a 15:45, 25 January 2006 (UTC)