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MS-DOS

[em-es daws, -dos] / ˈɛmˌɛs ˈdɔs, -ˈdɒs /


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But IBM did license its MS-DOS operating system for the 1981 PC, figuring it might sell 200,000 units over the life of the product.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

As one technologist told me this week, prompting is something you did on MS-DOS.

From Slate • Sep. 23, 2023

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

The Mac equivalent of a Unix sub-directory is a folder within another folder. cat Equivalent to the MS-DOS "type" command.

From Big Dummy's Guide to the Internet by Electronic Frontier Foundation




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