MS DOS

or MS-DOS

[ em-es daws, -dos ]
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Trademark.
  1. an operating system for personal computers, originally developed by Microsoft for IBM computers.

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British Dictionary definitions for MS-DOS

MS-DOS

/ (ɛmˈɛsˈdɒs) /


noun
  1. trademark computing a type of disk operating system

Origin of MS-DOS

1
C20: from M (icro) s (oft), the company that developed it, + DOS

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