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

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

This is a rare look at the tech giant's first operating system ...

History painstakingly preserved.

Two big things happened in the world of text-based disk operating systems in June 1994. The first is that Microsoft released MS-DOS version 6.22, the last version of its long-running operating system ...

30 years ago today, Microsoft bought the rights to the Quick and Dirty OS, re-branded it as MS-DOS, struck a deal with IBM, and made history. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

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Microsoft big cheese Satya Nadella is backpedalling on recent changes to Windows, hoping to win back “fans”. I’m going to ...

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