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The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] RedIce25 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait, DOS stands for Dirty Operating System?

[–] Dasnap 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Daddy's Little Slut Operating System.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] dual_sport_dork 29 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Dos being a scp also makes sense