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What does MS-DOS mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word MS-DOS? Here's what it means.

Acronym
  1. Microsoft Disk Operating System, an operating system for IBM-compatible personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s, eventually succeeded by standalone versions of Microsoft Windows.
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The big break came in 1980 when an agreement was signed to provide the operating system that became known as MS-DOS, for IBM's new personal computer.
You can run Document Factory from the MS-DOS command line, using an.ini file, allowing you to set up scheduled document generation.
Verify the path settings of the customer using the command path at the MS-DOS command prompt.
Windows® and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries.
The MS-DOS filesystem has had a potential corruption issue fixed, and is more reliable when given a corrupted filesystem to mount.
It allows a program to obtain hardware-dependent information and to request operations that are not supported by other MS-DOS function calls.

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