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MS-DOS

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


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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

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 rest is about practical applications of MS-DOS based personal computers.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd




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