After purchasing 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products (SCP), Microsoft persuaded IBM to accept a non-exclusive business partnership to put its new Disk Operating System on every single IBM PC ...

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

Before Windows, there was MS-DOS—that’s the Microsoft Disk Operating System, if you’re unfamiliar—a text-based, command-line interface operating system that was the way into managing files ...

B efore Windows introduced its modern GUI system, Microsoft was well-known for its iconic command-line operating system, MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system.

Five years later, a revolutionary operating system was born, which «borrowed» some ideas from the creations of Steve Jobs and his team. Windows 1.0 was Microsoft’s first attempt to create a graphical ...

Before Microsoft’s “MS-DOS” rebrand, SCP first called their OS “Quick’n’Dirty Operating System” (QDOS), but soon swapped over to the more marketable 86-DOS name.

It's no joke. Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to open-source the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. Why? Well, why not? That got Hanselman and Wilcox digging into the ...

We all love today's cutting-edge operating systems, but there are times when it's fun to think back to yesteryear and relive ...

You will find the complete list of MS-DOS commands below. However, MS-DOS commands are not the same as Windows command line commands or Powershell commands. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is ...

Microsoft and IBM’s DOS operating system is an important milestone in the history of personal computing, ... including MS-DOS 1.25, 2.11, and as of now, 4.0.

Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988's MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity ...