LITTLE ROCK — Back in the dim, dark reaches of the 1980s you controlled your computer with keyboard commands, using a program called DOS. It stood for Disk Operating System and had only two things ...

Gary Kildall started Intergalactic Digital Research (later shortened to Digital Research or just DRI) and created the first microcomputer operating system, CP/M, used on many hobbyist personal ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

Every once in awhile Ars publishes DOS articles, which gets me thinking about DOS again, and I thought, perhaps there would be value in DOS perpetual thread on the Forums, for non-article-specific DOS ...