FreeDOS is an operating system that can run MS-DOS programs natively and will appeal more to enthusiasts. DOSBox is an emulator that simplifies running MS-DOS programs but comes with some ...

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Windows 95, the operating system that revolutionized personal computing and introduced ...

I learned the ins and outs of Microsoft's dominant character-based OS, and wrote about it and the applications that ran on it, like WordPerfect, Textra, Lotus 1-2-3, and even MS Word on DOS.

MS-DOS never made it to 7.01, or 7.10. The last official release of MS-DOS was 6.22. If it's version 7.10 most likely it's DR-DOS, which, IIRC, was made by Caldera.

Microsoft earlier today, in collaboration with IBM, announced that it is open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code. The company has explained what was special about it and how to run it.

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 ...

It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows. But… ...