Windows 1.0 Five years later, a revolutionary operating system was born, which «borrowed» some ideas from the creations of Steve Jobs and his team. Windows 1.0 was Microsoft’s first attempt to create ...

While there are plenty of ways to run MS-DOS apps on modern hardware using an emulator, FreeDOS is a complete 16-bit operating system that can be installed on old computers with XT, 286, and 386 ...

Indeed, they would soon realize that under the name MS-DOS, the new operating system would be crucial to the success of Microsoft. In May 1981, Paterson left SCP and joined Microsoft.

It was destined to be the operating system for the IBM Personal Computer. MS-DOS 1.0 shipped on IBM PC in July 1981 and was, until 1990, the most used operating system on Compatible PCs.

The world of MS-DOS-compatible operating systems moves slowly enough that most of this information is still relevant; FreeDOS was at version 1.1 back in 2014, and it’s on version 1.3 now.

It might seem like the days of MS-DOS were a lifetime ago because…well, they basically were. Version 6.22 of the venerable operating system, the last standalone release, came out back in 1994… ...

The cross-platform availability has delighted longtime users who never expected to see Microsoft's text editor running on their preferred operating system. "30 years of waiting, and I can use MS ...

X user konkretor recently discovered a job listing seeking an IT professional with knowledge of legacy operating systems including Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS.