Good evening, not long ago MS-DOS came to mind; so thinking of Arduino the question of this forum came to my mind: is there a program for Arduino like DOS?
To go into details: is it possible to have an Arduino program that (using the SD card reading / writing shield) could be a terminal via serial connection?
I think the "big picture problem" is that there is no standard hardware interface for peripherals like a keyboard, display, or file storage. (And, it has limited memory.)
The attraction of the Arduino boards is that they DON'T have an operating system to get in the way of the sort of tasks that microprocessors are good at.
If you need a small footprint PC with an operating system consider using a Raspberry PI.