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- initialism Microsoft
Disk Operating System , an operating system forIBM -compatiblepersonal computers in the 1980s and 1990s, eventually succeeded bystandalone versions of Microsoft Windows.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an operating system developed by Bill Gates for personal computers
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The Mac's graphical user interface, soon replicated in Microsoft Windows, saving the world from the even more bureaucratic MS-DOS, was radical in its elegance and ease.
William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon William Bradley 2011
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To some, that may sound similar to the IBM PC and what Microsoft enabled in that market by producing MS-DOS.
iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8? A coder's guide 2011
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Because DR had retained rights to their own OS, DR-DOS continued to be available for some years, but never posed a threat to MS-DOS.
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The Mac's graphical user interface, soon replicated in Microsoft Windows, saving the world from the even more bureaucratic MS-DOS, was radical in its elegance and ease.
William Bradley: Steve Jobs: Hardly a Perfect Person, Perhaps a Perfect Icon William Bradley 2011
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It was Caroline who taught me how to use MS-DOS, not to be afraid of the very primitive precursor to Excel that we had then, how to use a computer.
March 24th, 2009 dame_habonde 2009
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Microsoft was already a powerhouse years before MS-DOS.
Entrepreneurs and "giving back", Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Beyond that Windows was not initially an OS, Even windows98 is actually MS-DOS with a gui on top.
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Set the drop-down menu labeled Format to "MS-DOS (FAT)."
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I started computing using something called HDOS, then CP/M, then MS-DOS.
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It was Caroline who taught me how to use MS-DOS, not to be afraid of the very primitive precursor to Excel that we had then, how to use a computer.
dame_habonde: In honour of Ada Lovelace Day... dame_habonde 2009
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