• Blue
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    3211 months ago

    Wait, DOS stands for Dirty Operating System?

    • @Dasnap
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      2511 months ago

      Daddy’s Little Slut Operating System.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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        2911 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      811 months ago

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