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• mess-dos /mes-dos/ n. [semi-obsolescent now that DOS is] Derisory term for MS-DOS.
  Often followed by the ritual banishing "Just say No!...
• MS-DOS: Just say NO!
• mess-dos: /mes-dos/ n. Derisory term for MS-DOS. Often followed by the ritual banishing "Just say No!
  See {{MS-DOS}}. Most hackers (even many MS-DOS hackers) loathe MS-DOS for its single-tasking nature, its limits on application size, its nasty primitive interface, and its ties to IBMness (see {fear and loathing})....
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....
• MS-DOS /M-S-dos/ n. [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] A clone of CP/M for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson at Seattle Computer Produc
  who called the original QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) and is said to have regretted it ever since....
• Republicans say "Clean up the mess", but complain when it's done.
• deserves to lose adj. [common] Said of someone who willfully does the Wrong Thing
  humorously, if one uses a feature known to be marginal....
• deserves to lose: adj. Said of someone who willfully does the {Wrong Thing}
  humorously, if one uses a feature known to be {marginal}....
• DOS is just an operating system that runs Windows 3.1.