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DOS
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Appendix:Variations of "dos"
English
Pronunciation
en /diː oː ˈɛs/ most senses
en /dɒs/ /dɔːs/ operating system
en /dɑs/ Canada operating system
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-DOS.wav US
en ɒs ɔːs 1
Noun
es
en military en date of service.
en military en date of separation.
en computing Internet en denial of service.
en DoS
en sciences en density of states.
en education en director of studies.
en computing en disk operating system
en emergency services en death on scene.
Translations
disk operating system
Arabic: ar دوس m
French: fr DOS
Icelandic: is diskstýrikerfi n
Italian: it DOS
Xibe: sjo ᡩᡞ ᠣᡠ ᠠᡞᠰ di oo ais
Proper noun
en computing historical en w:Disk Operating System a family of disk-based operating systems.
en CP/M
1993, Kris A. Jamsa, DOS: The Complete Reference, McGraw–Hill Osborne Media:
Next, using your word processor or the DOS text editor, you can edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
en 1993 Doug Lowe The Only DOS Book You'll Ever Need Mike Murach & Associates Incorporated 9780911625714 95 One way to do that is to turn the PC off and turn it back on again. Then, the PC performs its self-test and boots DOS.
en US politics en w:United States Department of State Department of State.
en Foggy Bottom
Usage notes
Normally applied to operating systems available for IBM and IBM-compatible personal computers from the early 1980s (PC-DOS, MS-DOS, DR-DOS, Novell DOS, FreeDOS), although the term was also used before and after this to refer to any disk-based operating system (such as the Data General Diskette Operating System for their minicomputers, or for the TRS-80 DOS used when the computer was upgraded from cassette data storage to diskette).
Derived terms
en DR-DOS
en PC-DOS
en MS-DOS
Further reading
disk operating system
MS-DOS
United States Department of State
density of states
Anagrams
en dos ods sod OD's ODS dso OS&D SOD OSD ODs SDO SoD DSO
Japanese
Etymology
ja en DOS.
Pronunciation
ドス 1
Noun
ドス
ja ディスクオペレーティングシステム disuku operētingu shisutemu disk operating system