User:Dgpop

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Most of my edits are on video game and computer history topics. I've cleaned-up many older game articles that had become disorganized. I've done major restructuring and editing of some large articles: TI-99/4A, TRS-80 Color Computer, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Atari 8-bit computers, Atari ST.

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Microsoft developed the disk operating system for the IBM PC, which IBM sold as IBM PC DOS and Microsoft self-branded as MS-DOS. Both were released in 1981, but the one with the Microsoft name attached was widely licensed and became the standard for the huge IBM PC compatible market.

On May 28, 1988, Digital Research released an enhanced MS-DOS compatible operating system as DR-DOS. Since then there has been a clone of MS-DOS designed for embedded systems (ROM-DOS), a clone developed in Russia (PTS-DOS), and an open source clone (FreeDOS). My interpretation is that there's MS-DOS, MS-DOS sold under a different name, and clones of MS-DOS, and it's fair to lump the entire group under the MS-DOS header.

A more revisionist view is that there's a family of disk operating systems for IBM PC compatibles, and one of those is MS-DOS. The collective name for this family is "DOS." Complicating things is that "DOS" is both a general acronym for disk operating system and within various communities it's shorthand for a particular system's DOS (e.g., Atari DOS, Apple DOS).

The DOS slang feels more and more incorrect as time goes by.

Sometimes the name doesn't work without the manufacturer, such as Apple II and Atari ST, but in general there's no reason to add bulk repeating company names.

The Copyeditor's Barnstar

WOW! So you're the other person on Wikipedia who comprehends correct tense! I bet I've edited 100 articles to eliminate the childishly nostalgic past tense about classic technology. The stuff about Amiga and Nintendo has been a bear, and there is a perpetual tense edit war on Nintendo Power, lol. So if the product was a computer, then when did it become something else and what did it become then? :-D — Smuckola(talk) 18:57, 23 November 2015 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
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