The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploadedvideodrome@lemmy.capebreton.social to Technology@lemmy.world – 196 points – 6 months agoarstechnica.com8Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentWait, DOS stands for Dirty Operating System?Daddy's Little Slut Operating System.ha, i felt that too. ive been wrong for how many decades??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.That really explains a lot, and why MS jumped to Windows NT, they knew that DOS would always be Dirty.Dos being a scp also makes sense
Wait, DOS stands for Dirty Operating System?Daddy's Little Slut Operating System.ha, i felt that too. ive been wrong for how many decades??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.That really explains a lot, and why MS jumped to Windows NT, they knew that DOS would always be Dirty.Dos being a scp also makes sense
ha, i felt that too. ive been wrong for how many decades??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.
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.
That really explains a lot, and why MS jumped to Windows NT, they knew that DOS would always be Dirty.Dos being a scp also makes sense
Wait, DOS stands for Dirty Operating System?
Daddy's Little Slut Operating System.
ha, i felt that too. ive been wrong for how many decades??
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.
That really explains a lot, and why MS jumped to Windows NT, they knew that DOS would always be Dirty.
Dos being a scp also makes sense