Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...

MS-DOS wasn’t the only DOS in town.. DOS was a family of OSes, it had many flavors, not much unlike Linux has. Report comment. Reply. Evaprototype says: August 9, 2023 at 6:51 pm ...

A new, ancient release of 86-DOS (0.1-C) has now been uploaded on the Internet Archive servers by Archive member "f15sim", who was previously known for uploading version 0.34 of the OS. 86-DOS 0.1 ...

Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work.

As it turns out, getting MS-DOS 6.22 running on a modern computer isn’t nearly as hard as you’d think. In fact, it works pretty much perfectly. Assuming, that is, you pick the right machine.

In many ways, the Microsoft empire was built on MS-DOS. The company got its start selling tools for programmers, but its big break came in 1980 when it licensed MS-DOS to IBM for use in the ...

This isn't the first time Microsoft has open-sourced MS-DOS, as its GitHub repository already has versions 1.25 and 2.0, which were originally shared at the Computer History Museum back in 2014.