MS-DOS
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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
As one technologist told me this week, prompting is something you did on MS-DOS.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2023
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
The file is a self-extract file, meaning that you just enter "WINCARD" on an MS-DOS computer to extract the game files from the "package."
From The Online World by Odd De Presno
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