Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Before Windows, there was MS-DOS—that’s the Microsoft Disk ...

I still find myself doing things in Windows a DOS prompt because it's just so much faster. I believe the last version of MS-DOS to come with a decent manual was 5.0, and I'm sure you can find a copy ...

If you trying to install a 16 bit DOS application on Windows 32 bit PC then you may encounter an error – The system file is not suitable for running MS-DOS and ...

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 ...

The Rise of DOS: How Microsoft Got the IBM PC OS Contract The reason Microsoft became so big comes down to the best deal ever made in the history of computing, between the fledgling software company ...

But then you had the 80836 and virtual memory; it could remap high RAM into a window in the upper memory area, so that DOS programs could see and access it just like an expanded memory hardware ...