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. ![](//www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif)
DOS of course means Disk Operating System, but as I said, it did everything else too.
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