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See also: Appendix:Variations of "dos"
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DOS
- (computing, historical) Acronym of Disk Operating System, a family of disk-based operating systems.
- Coordinate term: CP/M
- 1993, Kris A. Jamsa, DOS: The Complete Reference, McGraw–Hill Osborne Media:
- Next, using your word processor or the DOS text editor, you can edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
- 1993, Doug Lowe, The Only DOS Book You'll Ever Need, Mike Murach & Associates Incorporated, →ISBN, page 95:
- One way to do that is to turn the PC off and turn it back on again. Then, the PC performs its self-test and boots DOS.
- (US politics) Initialism of Department of State.
- Synonym: Foggy Bottom
Usage notes[edit]
- Normally applied to operating systems available for IBM and IBM-compatible personal computers from the early 1980s (PC-DOS, MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Novell DOS, FreeDOS), although the term was also used before and after this to refer to any disk-based operating system (such as the Data General Diskette Operating System for their minicomputers, or for the TRS-80 DOS used when the computer was upgraded from cassette data storage to diskette).
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Disk Operating System
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Noun[edit]
DOS (plural DOSes)
- (military) Initialism of date of service.
- (military) Initialism of date of separation.
- (computing, Internet) Initialism of denial of service.
- Alternative form: DoS
- (sciences) Initialism of density of states.
- (education) Initialism of director of studies.
Further reading[edit]
- DOS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- disk operating system on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- MS-DOS on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- United States Department of State on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- density of states on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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