videodrome@lemmy.capebreton.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThe oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploadedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1199arrow-down12cross-posted to: computerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.social
arrow-up1197arrow-down1external-linkThe oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploadedarstechnica.comvideodrome@lemmy.capebreton.social to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square9fedilinkcross-posted to: computerhistory@lemmy.capebreton.social
minus-squareBlue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31·11 months agoWait, DOS stands for Dirty Operating System?
minus-squareDasnap@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·11 months agoDaddy’s Little Slut Operating System.
minus-squareanemoia_one@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoAnd years later we have https://uwuntuos.site/
minus-squareoriginalucifer@moist.catsweat.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·11 months agoha, i felt that too. ive been wrong for how many decades??
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·11 months agoI 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-up8·11 months agoThat 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