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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>mess-dos</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../M.html" title="M"/><link rel="previous" href="menuitis.html" title="menuitis"/><link rel="next" href="meta.html" title="meta"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">mess-dos</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="menuitis.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">M</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meta.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="mess-dos"/><dt xmlns="" id="mess-dos"><b>mess-dos</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/mes·dos/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [semi-obsolescent now that DOS is] Derisory term for MS-DOS. Often
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followed by the ritual banishing “<span class="quote">Just say No!</span>” See
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<a href="MS-DOS.html"><i class="glossterm">MS-DOS</i></a>. Most hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers)
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loathed MS-DOS for its single-tasking nature, its limits on application
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size, its nasty primitive interface, and its ties to IBMness and
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Microsoftness (see <a href="../F/fear-and-loathing.html"><i class="glossterm">fear and loathing</i></a>). Also
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<span class="firstterm">mess-loss</span>, <span class="firstterm">messy-dos</span>, <span class="firstterm">mess-dog</span>, <span class="firstterm">mess-dross</span>, <span class="firstterm">mush-dos</span>, and various combinations thereof. In
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Ireland and the U.K. it is even sometimes called ‘Domestos’
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after a brand of toilet cleanser.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="menuitis.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../M.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="meta.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">menuitis </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> meta</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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