My very first technology article, back in 1987, was about MS-DOS 3.30. Almost 30 years later, I’m still writing, but the last bit of MS-DOS, cmd.exe — the command prompt — is on its way out ...

MS-DOS, despite the name, wasn’t made by Microsoft originally. It was engineered by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, (SCP), a computer company in the Pacific Northwest.

MS-DOS 4.0 has now become part of this shared history. Ten years after releasing the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft is making yet another contribution to the world of open-source ...

Once copied across, I ejected the card from my PC and booted the Raspberry Pi straight into what looks like MS-DOS. While some of the displayed text confirms that it’s not a real 1990s PC, it ...

MS DOS was a command-line operating system, meaning you had to memorize a lot of commands and type them into the computer to get it to do things like show you a list of files. And for the past 36 ...

You need an MS-DOS system disk to boot the computer so you can change the BIOS. You can create the disk using Windows 98/Me by typing format a:/s from the command prompt. Once you've created the ...

Microsoft, in conjunction with the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, has released the source code for MS-DOS 1.1, MS-DOS 2.0, and Word for Windows 1.1a. These programs are probably the ...

Users can now play The Oregon Trail Deluxe by MECC on the Internet Archive. The Oregon Trail Deluxe is one of over 2,000 MS-DOS games that are now available to play at Archive.org.

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Retro gaming often seeks to make new games using an old tech. A new Kickstarter, though, is trying to recreate a classic: solitaire for MS-DOS, shipped on a floppy disk.