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

It reminded me of one of my all-time favorites, the MS-DOS game Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?.

From The Verge • Jul. 14, 2022

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

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

Utility programs for MS-DOS computers are stored in directory 10.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd