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'''DOS'''
'''D'''isk '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem. An old operating system that was originally used to get input from floppy drives.
The term DOS was first used in the sixties by IBM for their simple operating system for the 360 series of computers.
DOS that most people know about is a product that Microsoft bought from Seattle Computer Products, a company founded and run by Tim Patterson - the chief designer of what was then known as QDOS -- Quick and Dirty Operating System.
QDOS was born out of the need to make something simpler and nicer than the most popular operating system of the time called CP/M.
MS DOS was released in August 1981.
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dos
'''DOS'''
'''D'''isk '''O'''perating '''S'''ystem. An old operating system that was originally used to get input from floppy drives.
The term DOS was first used in the sixties by IBM for their simple operating system for the 360 series of computers.
DOS that most people know about is a product that Microsoft bought from Seattle Computer Products, a company founded and run by Tim Patterson - the chief designer of what was then known as QDOS -- Quick and Dirty Operating System.
QDOS was born out of the need to make something simpler and nicer than the most popular operating system of the time called CP/M.
MS DOS was released in August 1981.
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