MS-DOS

Example Sentences

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It makes sense—after all, Mr. Gates’s products succeeded not because everyone got together and agreed that they should adopt MS-DOS but because smart design met human need.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

Microsoft and Apple have their own disk formatting systems, but Apple can read MS-DOS, while Windows cannot read any Apple file systems.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2021

Thanks to the creators of DOSBox, I still get to enjoy the MS-DOS games I played 20 years ago that took up big portions of the 40-megabyte hard drive on my old 286 PC.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2017

Malware Museum is an online collection put together by Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen, chief resource officer at Finnish security firm F-secure, featuring emulated versions of a number of MS-DOS viruses from the 1980s and 1990s.

From The Verge • Feb. 8, 2016

This term is techspeak under MS-DOS and OS/2, and seems to be generally preferred among micro hobbyists. :beige toaster: /n./

From The Jargon File, Version 4.0.0, 24 Jul 1996 by Raymond, Eric S.