videodrome@lemmy.capebreton.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploadedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1201arrow-down12
arrow-up1199arrow-down1external-linkThe oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploadedarstechnica.comvideodrome@lemmy.capebreton.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 年前message-square9fedilink
minus-squareBlue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·1 年前Wait, DOS stands for Dirty Operating System?
minus-squareDasnap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 年前Daddy’s Little Slut Operating System.
minus-squareanemoia_one@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 年前And years later we have https://uwuntuos.site/
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·1 年前ha, i felt that too. ive been wrong for how many decades??
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·1 年前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.
minus-squareBeigeAgenda@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 年前That really explains a lot, and why MS jumped to Windows NT, they knew that DOS would always be Dirty.
Wait, DOS stands for Dirty Operating System?
Daddy’s Little Slut Operating System.
And years later we have https://uwuntuos.site/
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