DOS topic
Also known as
- Disk Operating System
DOS, short for "Disk Operating System", is a shorthand term for several closely related operating system that dominated the IBM PC compatible market between 1981 and 1995, or until about 2000 if one includes the partially DOS-based Microsoft Windows versions Windows 95, 98, and Me.
Related systems include MS-DOS, PC-DOS, DR-DOS, FreeDOS, PTS-DOS, ROM-DOS, JM-OS, and several others.
In spite of the common usage, none of these systems were named simply "DOS" (a name given only to an unrelated...
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