Dirty operating system developed at SCP. Sounds almost fictional
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Poiar@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Wth… DOS stands for Dirty Operating System 😂
SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 months ago
It doesn’t, though. QDOS was just a joke babe used internally. The official name was 86-DOS, with DOS standing for Disk Operating System. It was named as a distinction for the fact it could load from disks (hard and floppy) and also that it supported disk filesystems. Previous generations of operating systems were loaded from tape or other supports and did not use files, so it was an important distinction to make.
WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 5 months ago
To add to this. DOSes existed going back to the 60s. IBM had DOSes for it's System/360 mainframes back in '64.