videodrome@lemmy.capebreton.socialcake to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoThe oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploadedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square9linkfedilinkarrow-up1200arrow-down12
arrow-up1198arrow-down1external-linkThe oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploadedarstechnica.comvideodrome@lemmy.capebreton.socialcake to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square9linkfedilink
minus-squaredual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·2 years 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.
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.