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… ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.