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Apple Computer, Inc. gave the acronym SOS (pronounced /ˈsɔːs/) the meaning Sophisticated Operating System when the operating system was released in 1980. SOS made the resources of the Apple III available in the form of a menu-driven utility program as well as a programming API. The Apple /// System Utilities program shipped with each Apple III computer. It provided what today would be called the end user "experience" of the operating system if the user were running it instead of an application... full article at wikipedia
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