To this day I think I'm more comfortable in command line environments on Linux/Unix OS's because of learning early on both MS-DOS and Commodore. If I want to get something done it's still my go-to ...

Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work. By Andrew Paul Published Jan 5, 2024 2:13 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Do you still long to run WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3 4, or Doom on DOS? Well, if you do, there's a new way to revisit the PC world of the 1980s: The newly open-sourced PC-MOS/386 v501. PC-MOS, for ...

30 years ago today, Microsoft bought the rights to the Quick and Dirty OS, re-branded it as MS-DOS, struck a deal with IBM, and made history. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

It sure looked like Microsoft was putting MS-DOS out to pasture. Now it’s saying that the MS-DOS command prompt cmd will continue to live on. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, “Microsoft is not ...

No one has bought the Intel Inside Pentium Pro Mug. This AWS bill is not going away and I don't know what to do. Jeff Bezos is going to break my kneecaps. He is doing that thing where he calls my ...

Some text editors and word processors have stood the test of time, thanks to unique features, nostalgia from the original users, or some combination of both. I wanted to try revisiting some of those ...

Así es como el departamento de marketing de Microsoft decidió promocionar la actualización a MS-DOS 5 en 1991. Esta era la primera vez que se podía comprar un upgrade (si tenías MS-DOS 4) que costaba ...

TL;DR: Microsoft will likely never release the original source code of Windows into the wild, but the company is clearly interested in sharing important episodes of its software development history.

The thing I miss the most about older computers was actually KNOWNG what the computer was doing. Up to Windows 2000 and PowerPC Macs, I could tell you what each process running was doing. Now I feel ...