In MS-DOS, what does DOS stand for?

triviapaul

Disk Operating System. Ah, the good old days... Dec 13 07, 3:56 PM

myrab51

Disk Operating System (specifically) and disk operating system (generically), most often abbreviated as DOS (not to be confused with the DOS family of disk operating systems for the IBM PC compatible platform), refer to operating system software used in most computers that provides the abstraction and management of secondary storage devices and the information on them (e.g., file systems for organizing files of all sorts). Such software is referred to as a disk operating system when the storage devices it manages are made of rotating platters (such as hard disks or floppy disks). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_operating_system Dec 13 07, 6:01 PM

AyatollahK

Disk Operating System. And the MS stands for Microsoft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS "MS-DOS (short for Microsoft Disk Operating System)..." Dec 13 07, 6:02 PM