Ms-dos

//ˌɛmɛsˈdɒs// name

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  1. 1
    Initialism of Microsoft Disk Operating System, an operating system for IBM-compatible personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s, eventually succeeded by standalone versions of Microsoft Windows. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

    "In its MS-DOS, Version 6.22, Microsoft added a legally correct version of data compression and enhanced the operating system's safety features."

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"The maker of Windows and MS-DOS was Gary Kildall, which Gates basically stole from him."

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