MS-DOS

Example Sentences

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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

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

Malware Museum is an online collection put together by Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen, chief resource officer at Finnish security firm F-secure, featuring emulated versions of a number of MS-DOS viruses from the 1980s and 1990s.

From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2016

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 De Presno, Odd