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__D__enial __O__f __S__ervice%%% Usually written "DoS"%%% !!!OR%%% __D__isk __O__perating __S__ystem. Usually named after the operating systems of 8bit micros, who's operating system didn't include memory management, multiuser or multiprocessing and only a thin abstraction if any over any hardware, so they only part of the Operating System that they actually implemented was the filesystem, hence, DOS. MS-DOS (Microsoft DOS) was originally called QDOS, and was written in 2 weeks. QDOS stands for "Quick and Dirty Operating System". Microsoft promised IBM that they would cheaply license them an OS - they bought the rights to QDOS and started hacking it up from there...
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