The making of Bill Gates The history of MS DOS is part legend, part myth, but either way, it is responsible for Bill Gate's fortune, as well as that of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

DIY Tech Hacks How to get MS-DOS up and running on Windows or macOS Take a trip to the past—and load up some classic apps and games. David Nield Aug 31, 2024 1:03 PM EDT ...

Roth—known for his work on Forrest Gump, Munich, and most recently Dune—revealed in an interview in 2014 that he does all of his screenwriting using the MS-DOS program Movie Master 3.09.

Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool ...

Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0 A story about an obsolete PC, an old library book, and one version of MS-DOS. Andrew Cunningham – Apr 4, 2025 12:37 PM | 122 ...

Although Microsoft's Open Source Program Office was unable to find the complete source code for MT-DOS in the Microsoft archives, they were able to find the source code for MS-DOS 4.0, which was ...

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… ...

This isn't the first time Microsoft has released MS-DOS source code. Back in 2014, Microsoft open-sourced the MS-DOS source code for versions 1.25 and 2.0 via the Computer History Museum.

To be clear, the GitHub repository itself has been around for several years, and previously contained the source and binaries for MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 under the MIT license.