is an essential part of MS-DOS and Windows 9x. It contains the default MS-DOS device drivers (hardware interfacing routines) and the DOS initialization program.
is an essential part of MS-DOS and Windows 9x. It contains the default MS-DOS device drivers (hardware interfacing routines) and the DOS initialization program.
== Boot sequence == In the PC bootup sequence, the first sector of the boot disk is loaded into memory and executed. If this is the DOS boot sector, it loads the first three sectors of into memory and transfers control to it. then: Loads the rest of itself into memory. Initializes each default device driver in turn (console, disk, serial port, etc..). At this point, the default devices are available. Loads the DOS kernel and calls its initialization routine. The kernel is stored in with MS-DOS and in with Windows 9x. At this point, "normal" file access is available. Processes the file with Windows 9x. Processes the file, in MS-DOS 2.0 and higher and Windows 9x. Loads (or other operating system shell if specified). Displays the bootsplash in Windows 9x. If is present, it is used as the bootsplash. Otherwise, the bootsplash in is used.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).