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A family of text-based operating systems for IBM PCs and compatibles of the 1980s and 1990s, including MS-DOS. DO NOT USE THIS TAG FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WINDOWS COMMAND PROMPT! Instead, use the [windows], [batch-file], [windows-console], and/or [cmd] tags. For questions about denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, use [denial-of-service].

A family of disk-based operating systems (Disk Operating System) for mainframes and minicomputers in the 1960s and 1970s, and subsequently IBM PCs and compatibles of the 1980s and 1990s, including MS-DOS. DO NOT USE THIS TAG FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WINDOWS COMMAND PROMPT! Instead, use the [windows], [batch-file], [windows-console], and/or [cmd] tags. For questions about denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, use [denial-of-service].

DOS is a family of operating systems for IBM PC compatibles of the 1980s and 1990s, including MS-DOS which was then displaced by Windows. Do NOT use this tag for questions concerning the Windows command line. For Windows batch files and command line, use the tags [windows], [batch-file], [windows-console] or [cmd]. For DoS as in denial of service, use [denial-of-service].

A family of text-based operating systems for IBM PCs and compatibles of the 1980s and 1990s, including MS-DOS. DO NOT USE THIS TAG FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WINDOWS COMMAND PROMPT! Instead, use the [windows], [batch-file], [windows-console], and/or [cmd] tags. For questions about denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, use [denial-of-service].

DOS is a family of operating systems for IBM PC compatibles of the 1980s and 1990s, including MS-DOS which was then displaced by Windows. Do NOT use this tag for questions concerning the Windows command line. For Windows batch files and command line, use the tags [windows], [batch-file] or [cmd]. For DoS as in denial of service, use [denial-of-service].

DOS is a family of operating systems for IBM PC compatibles of the 1980s and 1990s, including MS-DOS which was then displaced by Windows. Do NOT use this tag for questions concerning the Windows command line. For Windows batch files and command line, use the tags [windows], [batch-file], [windows-console] or [cmd]. For DoS as in denial of service, use [denial-of-service].