For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this ...

Microsoft just released the source code for 86-DOS 1.00, made available as an open-source project on GitHub. The release ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

How was DOS part of the PC revolution? Is DOS still around? What did Bill write a long time ago? Remember the DOS prompt? DOS stands for disk operating system. The latest announcement is a blast from ...

Microsoft has officially released another significant piece of DOS history. The "Paterson Listings" include the earliest ...

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Before Microsoft had Office, before it had Windows, it had an operating system called MS DOS. MS DOS was a command-line operating system, meaning ...

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Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...