Friday, January 22, 2010

Limitations of MS-DOS


Limitations of MS-DOS
1. It is a command line user interface (CUI) operating system. You must type commands from the keyboard for each and every action.
2. It is a single user Interface operating system and It doesn't support multitasking. You must close first file to open next file in MS-DOS.
3. It accepts only 8 characters as filename and 3 characters as extension.
4. It doesn't support some symbols as file name and extensions like \,/, . , ! , , , , etc.
MS-DOS accepts two types of commands which are Internal DOS commands and External DOS Commands.

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