No, it didn't. It stood for "The Operating System". [I worked on it, and Leonard Tramiel, who was in charge of the software team, named it. I think you can att

No, it didn't. It stood for "The Operating System". [I worked on it, and Leonard Tramiel, who was in charge of the software team, named it. I think you can attribute the lack of a creative name to the fact that we were all very tired: The software was started in September 1984, and we shipped the 1.0 ROMs in May].