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The term ‘DOS’ stands for ‘Disk Operating System’. It is the first widely-installed operating system for personal computers. The same name has been used for an IBM operating system for a line of business computers. The first personal computer version of DOS, called PC-DOS, was developed for IBM by Bill Gates and his company ‘The Microsoft Corporation’.
