I'm an oldster - growing up when the first PC's were hitting the market. While "Command Prompt" or "Command line" has taken over now as preferred terms, back in the day - prior to GUI's - we all knew it as plain old DOS. DOS was the operating system, just as today we'd consider Windows 10 the Operating System.
I don't recall anyone referring to DOS solely in the context of disk commands, because let's face it, it's always done a whole lot more.
I agree with others, this is a strange debate. First there was DOS, then there were GUI's, which initially were little more than ways of making DOS really really slow.
DOS of course means Disk Operating System, but as I said, it did everything else too.
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