The word "msdoss" is a commonly misspelled version of "MS-DOS," which was a popular operating system for personal computers in the 1980s and 1990s. Its correct spelling is /ɛm ɛs dɒs/, which is pronounced "em-ess-doss" in English. The abbreviation "MS" stands for "Microsoft," the company that developed and released the operating system. Despite its decline in popularity, the influence of MS-DOS can still be seen in modern command-line interfaces and other computing systems.