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Also known as Disk Operating System, PC-compatible DOS

thumb|The boot screen and command-line interface of MS-DOS 6, with an example of its directory structure thumb|The boot screen and command-line interface of FreeDOS, showing version information and an example of its directory structure

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DOS (Disk Operating System) is an older computer operating system that used a text-based command line instead of graphical windows, and it was the standard system for personal computers in the 1980s and early 1990s. It matters historically because it was foundational to personal computing, and versions like MS-DOS became widely used before graphical systems like Windows took over.

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Vinony's link graph records 1,423 inbound references to DOS, and connects out to DR-DOS, Atari DOS and MS-DOS.

It sits within the topics American inventions, Disk operating systems and DOS on IBM PC compatibles.

Vinony links it to 62 Wikipedia language editions.

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Subclass of: disk operating system
Image: IBM PC DOS 1.0 screenshot.jpg

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Commons category: DOS
Stack Exchange tag: stackoverflow.com/tags/dos
topic's main category: Category:DOS on IBM PC compatibles
inception: 1981-00-00
different from: DOS

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American inventions Disk operating systems DOS on IBM PC compatibles