MS-DOS
Example Sentences
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It makes sense—after all, Mr. Gates’s products succeeded not because everyone got together and agreed that they should adopt MS-DOS but because smart design met human need.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
Microsoft and Apple have their own disk formatting systems, but Apple can read MS-DOS, while Windows cannot read any Apple file systems.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 30, 2021
Music nerds will delight in the wealth of inside references and jokes, as when Ms. Starlite refers to 1979 as the moment before Reagan, MS-DOS, acid wash “and Don Henley’s solo career.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2019
Thanks to the creators of DOSBox, I still get to enjoy the MS-DOS games I played 20 years ago that took up big portions of the 40-megabyte hard drive on my old 286 PC.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2017
Another MS-DOS format; requires the use of LHARC.
From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation
