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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 ...

Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS versions 1.25 and 2.0 through the Computer History Museum in March 2014. This was also intended as a historical document summarizing 'how MS-DOS was born.

Recently, we have been covering quite a lot of retro stuff for Windows which shows how modern apps have their roots in the '90s. If you are a fan of the bygone era of Windows, you are likely to be ...

Some things we don't think much about; we just accept them. But have you ever wondered why the hard drive on a Windows system ...

FreeDOS is an operating system that can run MS-DOS programs natively and will appeal more to enthusiasts. DOSBox is an ...

If you think messing around with the user-interface of a modern console, or even a modern iteration of Windows is hard, spare a thought for anyone involved in PC gaming during the 1980s and early 90s.

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...

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 ...