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Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

A blog post by programmer Nemanja Trifunovic, The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M, is on the face of it an interesting little excursion into the late delivery of a long-forgotten bit of software – one ...

I grew up with DOS, our first computer was an IBM PCJr with 256KB RAM. Dad bought a Gateway 2000 386 in 1990 and then left for contract work, leaving then ~14yo me to do any troubleshooting. That PC ...

PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations provide insight into the operating system's earliest days.

Building a complete operating system by compiling its source code is not something for the faint-hearted; a modern Linux or BSD distribution contains thousands of packages with millions of lines of ...

How early DOS command-line skills helped me climb the Linux learning curve.

Microsoft open-sourced 86-DOS 1.00 source code on GitHub for its 45th anniversary, according to PCWorld, including kernel and PC-DOS development snapshots. This historically significant software, ...

PCWorld demonstrates how Windows 11 users can run classic PC games from the 80s and 90s using DOSBox, a free emulator that simulates MS-DOS environments. DOSBox supports vintage titles like ...

You can now play classic DOS games on your Mac in your browser, thanks to the online service DOS_deck. Here's how to use it. At the dawn of the personal computer era ...

DOS, Amiga, IBM PC: 4 Ways to Run Old Games on Your Modern PC Want to play retro computer games on Windows 10 or 11? The older a game is, the less likely it is to work right out of the box on a new PC ...