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The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded (arstechnica.com)
submitted 10 months ago by videodrome@lemmy.capebreton.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] RedIce25@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Wait, DOS stands for Dirty Operating System?

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Daddy's Little Slut Operating System.

[–] anemoia_one@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 10 months ago

And years later we have https://uwuntuos.site/

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ha, i felt that too. ive been wrong for how many decades??

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago

I believe Microsoft tactfully and retroactively changed it to "disk" once it went commercial with IBM.

It also helped that at the time there were several "disk operating systems" for various platforms, which is why the MS- part on MS-DOS was important.

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That really explains a lot, and why MS jumped to Windows NT, they knew that DOS would always be Dirty.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 1 points 10 months ago

Dos being a scp also makes sense