Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...

Do you still long to run WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3 4, or Doom on DOS? Well, if you do, there's a new way to revisit the PC world of the 1980s: The newly open-sourced PC-MOS/386 v501. PC-MOS, for ...

Without Microsoft, the world of modern computer technology would not be the same as we know it. Next year, Microsoft turns 50 years old, so it’s worth looking back at the megacorporation’s significant ...

Source code for Microsoft's MS-DOS and Word for Windows programs is now publicly available via the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Microsoft donated the code of MS-DOS versions 1.1 ...

That's precisely what Yeo Kheng Meng has managed to do, even though DOS does not have native networking capabilities. The machine in question is the vintage IBM 5155 Portable PC, first released in ...

A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant A blog post by programmer Nemanja Trifunovic ...

Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit Larry or software such as Microsoft Works and Lotus Smart Suite? These titles ...

It sure looked like Microsoft was putting MS-DOS out to pasture. Now it’s saying that the MS-DOS command prompt cmd will continue to live on. According to a Microsoft spokesperson, “Microsoft is not ...

Microsoft has just released the source code for one of its operating systems… but don’t worry. Hell hasn’t frozen over. It’s just that a lot of time has passed and the software isn’t really all that ...