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The letters DOS stand for Disk Operating System. So DOS is an operating system. It is more commonly referred to as a CLI (Command Line Interface) because you have to type commands one at a time. Any version of Windows (from Windows 95 onward), or the Macintosh OS, are operating systems that have a GUI (Graphic User Interface). (Older versions of Windows, such as Windows for Workgroups 3.11, were basically a GUI that ran on top of DOS. You had to start Windows by typing the command WIN at the command line, or add the command to a file called AUTOEXEC.BAT, so that Windows would automatically start when you booted the computer.)

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