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unusual facts about MSX-DOS



A-dos-Ruivos

The Távora family took refuge there, in the 18th century, when they were being persecuted by the Marquess of Pombal.

B.R. Guest

Other BR Guest locations around the U.S include Fiamma Trattoria at the MGM Grand Las Vegas; Strip House at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas; Dos Caminos at the Sheraton Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel; Bill’s Bar & Burger, Dos Caminos, and Sammy D’s at Harrah's Atlantic City; and Atlantic Grill at Caesars Atlantic City.

Balada da Praia dos Cães

Ballad of Dog's Beach (in original Portuguese Balada da Praia dos Cães) is a fiction novel by the Portuguese author José Cardoso Pires, relating the investigation into the murder of a political dissident, taking place around 1961.

Battle of Mendaza

Zumalacárregui attempted to follow a plan of battle similar to that enacted by Hannibal at Cannae: he would allow enemy forces to drive themselves into a large arc — whereupon the Carlist infantry, positioned on the flanks in the forests of Holm oaks on the mountain of Dos Hermanas, would encircle the main body of Liberal infantry and destroy it.

Brad Silverberg

Brad Silverberg is an American computer scientist and businessman, most noted for his work at Microsoft in 1990–1999 as Senior VP and product manager for MS-DOS, Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office.

Center for Women in Government and Civil Society

CWGCS research has been supported through grants by the United States Department of Education, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States Department of State (DoS), the Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Charles H. Revson Foundation, and other government agencies, private foundations, and non-profit organizations.

Comic Bakery

The MSX version does not have unique music, using Yankee Doodle instead.

Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues

Cristiano dos Santos Rodrigues (born 3 June 1981), commonly known as Cristiano, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a striker for Club Deportivo Olimpia of the Liga Nacional de Honduras.

Cutting the Stone

The MSX game Don't Cock it Up used this painting for its box art.

De Volta Ao Planeta Dos Mutantes

De Volta Ao Planeta Dos Mutantes is a two disc best of compilation that includes popular and lesser known tracks from Os Mutantes first five albums, O A e o Z, Tecnicolor, and A Banda Tropicalista do Duprat by Rogério Duprat which includes a cover of The Beatles' "Lady Madonna".

Del Rio

Alberto Del Rio (born 1977; real name Alberto Rodríguez), Mexican professional wrestler who also performed under the name Dos Caras, Jr.

DPMS

DOS Protected Mode Services, a set of 286/386 extended DOS memory management services to allow slightly modified drivers and applications to relocate and run in extended memory.

DRDOS

DR-DOS, the successor to DR DOS, PalmDOS, Novell DOS and OpenDOS, but renamed DR-DOS by Caldera in 1998 (residing in C:\DRDOS\)

Educating Rita

From 26 March-8 May 2010, as part of the Willy Russell season at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Laura Dos Santos reprises her radio performance, on stage as Rita alongside Larry Lamb as Frank.

Electrical connector

A few examples are monitors (MGA, CGA, EGA), the Commodore 64, MSX, Apple II, Amiga, and Atari joysticks and mice, and game consoles such as Atari and Sega.

Fabiano Eller

Fabiano Eller dos Santos or simply Fabiano Eller (born 19 November 1977 in Linhares) is a Brazilian centre-back footballer.

Fast loader

A few commercial fast loaders, most notably CMD's JiffyDOS, were not cartridge-driven but instead replaced the KERNAL ROM in the C64 and the DOS ROM in the 1541.

FidoNet

There are similar solutions for Linux such as MODEMU (modem emulator) which has limited success when combined with DOSEMU (DOS emulator).

Francisco Gattorno

Gattorno also played Miguel in the popular comedy titled Las quiero a las dos by Ricardo Talesnik and also played a priest in Escrito y Sellado by Venezuelan playwright Isaac Chocrón.

Group code recording

This scheme is known as "6 and 2", and was used on Apple Pascal, Apple DOS 3.3 and ProDOS, and later on the 400K and 800K 3½ disks on the Macintosh and Apple II.

History of Angola

The military commanders signed a Memorandum of Understanding as an addendum to the Lusaka Protocol in Luena on April 4, Dos Santos and Lukambo observing.

History of Microsoft

DOS (Disk Operating System) was the operating system that brought the company its real success.

Hovhannes Tumanyan

Prominent members of the collective were Avetik Isahakyan, Derenik Demirchyan, Levon Shant, Ghazaros Aghayan, Perch Proshyan, Nikol Aghbalian, Alexander Shirvanzade, Nar-Dos, Vrtanes Papazyan, Vahan Terian, Leo, Stepan Lisitsyan, Mariam Tumanyan, Gevorg Bashinjagyan and many other significant Armenian figures of early 20th century.

Jean-Loup Gailly

He wrote the compression code of the portable archiver of the Info-ZIP and the tools compatible with the PKZIP archiver for MS-DOS.

José Marcelino Pessoa de Vasconcellos

Although Graciano dos Santos Neves was replaced by his vice-governor, Constante Gomes Sodré, the Brazilian Constitution of 1890 demanded a new election in case a chief of govern resigned, was impeached or died before the middle of the term, so Pessoa de Vasconcellos was elected to finish that term.

Leonardo dos Santos

Léo Fortunato (Leonardo Fortunato dos Santos, born 1983), Brazilian footballer

Miracle Systems

The QXL ran the SMSQ Qdos-compatible operating system and used the host PC's disks, screen, keyboard, serial and parallel ports via an MS-DOS "server".

MPB4

The initial lineup featured Miltinho (Milton Lima dos Santos Filho, Campos dos Goytacazes, October 18, 1943), Magro (Antônio José Waghabi Filho, Itaocara, RJ, November 14, 1943-August 8, 2012), Achilles (Achille Rique Reis, Niterói, RJ, May 22, 1948) and Ruy Faria (Ruy Alexandre Faria, Cambuci, RJ, July 31, 1937).

NEC PC-9801

Despite having hardware specifications far inferior to the Fujitsu FM Towns and Sharp X68000 personal computers, the massive install base and steady flow of game titles (in particular "dōjin" style dating sims and RPGs, as well as early games of the Touhou Project franchise) kept it as the favored platform for PC game developers in Japan until the rise of the DOS/V clones.

O Filme dos Espíritos

O Filme dos Espíritos is a 2011 Brazilian drama film directed by Michel Dubret and André Marouço, based on the book The Spirits Book by Allan Kardec.

P.T.O.

It was originally released for the PC-88 in 1989 and had been ported to various platforms, such as the Sharp X68000 (1990), MSX (1991), Sega Mega Drive and the Super Nintendo (both in 1992).

Passos

Dos Passos Prize (also known as John dos Passos Prize), an annual award for the best currently under-recognized American writer in the middle of their career

PC Globe

The minimum system requirements of the DOS version of the software is a 8086 processor, 640 KB of RAM and a graphics card CGA, EGA or VGA

Port Norris, New Jersey

The oystering industry reached its peak in 1955, declining by 1957 due to oyster pathogen Haplosporidium nelsoni (MSX) which killed 90% of the oysters.

Process.h

Most C compilers that target DOS, Windows 3.1x, Win32, OS/2, Novell NetWare or DOS extenders supply this header and the library functions in their C library.

Rafael dos Santos

Rafael dos Santos (Makanaki) (born October 8, 1983 in Salvador, Brazil) is a Brazilian footballer currently playing for 3 de Febrero of the Primera Division in Paraguay.

RDOFF

In version 0.90, Simon Tatham added support for an object-file output interface, along with support for DOS .

Rubén Israel

The individuals that will form the coaching staff are assistant managers Mauricio Alfaro and José Luis Rugamas, physical trainers Esteban Coppia (Argentina) and Nicolás Dos Santos (Uruguay) and the goalkeeping coach Carlos Cañadas.

SciTech SNAP

SciTech SNAP Graphics has been ported to MS-DOS, OS/2, Microsoft Windows (CE, NT, 2000, XP), QNX, SMX (the SunOS/Solaris port of MINIX), Linux, On Time RTOS-32, Unununium OS operating systems.

Star Command

Star Command: Revolution, a 1996 DOS computer game published by GT Interactive.

The Home Computer Advanced Course

Subjects included computer applications, computer hardware and software technology, concepts in computer science, practical electronics projects, BASIC and machine code programming, other programming languages, operating systems (including MS-DOS and UNIX), and a jargon dictionary.

University / 65th Street

Places to eat that are directly connected to the station include Dos Coyotes, Jamba Juice, and Starbucks.

Van Wolverton

Wolverton has written other computer books, addressing MS-DOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, WordPerfect, Netscape FastTrack, VisiCalc, QBasic and more.

WordPerfect

Note that WordPerfect had this feature already in its DOS incarnations: it could be brought forward by pressing the keys Alt and F3 together.

XDOS

Pat Villani's XDOS, an early predecessor to NSS-DOS, DOS/NT, DOS-C and the FreeDOS kernel


see also

History of Microsoft

Around 1983, in collaboration with numerous companies, Microsoft created a home computer system, MSX, which contained its own version of the DOS operating system, called MSX-DOS; this became relatively popular in Japan, Europe and South America.