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-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.
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.