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DOSology and DOSonomy......................Bob Sander-Cederlof

The other day I was thinking about the way Apple spells ProDOS.  They jealously guard the spelling, having trademarked the idea of upper-case "P" and "DOS" with lower-case "ro".

Of course, we all know that "Pro" is a standard prefix, with origins in the Greek language.  In Greek it means "before".  I think Apple derived it from the English word "professional", so that ProDOS means "professional DOS".  Nevertheless, the "pro" even in the word professional means before, according to the etymologies in dictionaries.

I took some Greek courses at Dallas Theological Seminary back in 1973 and 1974.  I remember very little now, but one thing stuck with me:  prepositions.  "Pro" is one, but there are a lot more.  What other interesting DOSses can we invent?

By the way, the preferred pronunciation of DOS rhymes with "boss", not "gross".  If you insist on rhyming with the latter, your pronunciation has a decided Spanish accent.  For you we have invented "UnoDOS", which is of course two-thirds of a popular product on the IBM-PC, uno-dos-tres by Lotus.  Ha!

The first that came to mind was "ParaDOS".  We like it so well, we've decided to trademark it!  It could relate to either paradox or pair-of-dice or paradise, take your pick.  A shrewdly written DOS could appear as all three at different times to different people.

Bill and I then started to brainstorm, and we can't stop.  We've got a blackboard full of neat names, just waiting for some one to write code for.  We may have stumbled on to some previously-used names, like SoliDOS and ProntoDOS, but for the most part I think we have cornered the market.

AmbiDOS   MisoDOS   PhiloDOS  BiblioDOS ViviDOS   DiaDOS
PaleoDOS  MesoDOS   NeoDOS    PsychoDOS MoriDOS   Dial-a-DOS
ChromoDOS BlancoDOS TechniDOS SomatoDOS DulciDOS  AnoDOS
AcriDOS   FeloniDOS BaloniDOS FormiDOS  MiniDOS   CathoDOS
MicroDOS  MidiDOS   MilliDOS  MegaDOS   NanoDOS   VagaDOS
TeraDOS   UniDOS    BioDOS    StupiDOS  TorriDOS  FabriDOS
SemiDOS   PeriDOS   AntiDOS   AnteDOS   ProsDOS   ExoDOS
HypoDOS   HyperDOS  OvaDOS    PupaDOS   PropoDOS  EnDOS
ArcheDOS  StatiDOS  DynamoDOS DynaDOS   ProtoDOS  EschatoDOS
OsteoDOS  MultiDOS  PuroDOS   CardioDOS PyroDOS   PrimaDOS
FrigiDOS  InterDOS  AndroDOS  GynoDOS   GymnoDOS  PseudoDOS
HieroDOS  SpiroDOS  HelioDOS  CycloDOS  AutoDOS   AggreDOS
ManoDOS   ChiroDOS  PetroDOS  LithoDOS  AeroDOS   PosiDOS
PlanoDOS  LiquiDOS  MarbleDOS PedoDOS   GraviDOS  NegaDOS
PedaDOS   GeriaDOS  NutriDOS  FlexiDOS  PleniDOS  NecroDOS
VisiDOS   InvisiDOS FluoriDOS FloriDOS  FaunaDOS  PensaDOS
ThanaDOS  AgriDOS   NaviDOS   NovaDOS   SpuriDOS  MensaDOS
StereoDOS VerbiDOS  VermiDOS  CineDOS   GeoDOS    TragiDOS
MonoDOS   DuoDOS    CobraDOS  FerroDOS  OxyDOS    AfroDOS
EuroDOS   NippoDOS  FrancoDOS IndoDOS   CanaDOS   HispanoDOS

Get the idea?
