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.

Windows 1.0 was Microsoft’s first attempt to create a graphical user interface for MS-DOS. Technically, it was not a fundamentally new system, but only a graphical shell that ran on top of MS-DOS. But ...

In later years DOS provided the foundation for early versions of Microsoft Windows, the company’s first operating system with a graphical user interface.

Despite its age, Word for Windows hews closer to modern user interfaces. It’s successor, the DOS-based, mouse-enabled version or Microsoft Word launched in 1983.

The user interface in the first versions of Windows. The MS-DOS Executive was superseded by Program Manager and File Manager in Windows 3.0. See Windows 1.0. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

And having started out with edlin on DOS, vim is comparably a wonder of user friendliness Sure I never use more than probably 0.5 % of the features in Vim, but the ones I need work ...

Windows 1.0 was Microsoft's attempt at a friendlier, mouse-based user interface, one that let you switch between several programs simultaneously, and without having to quit and restart each one.

MS-DOS and the Command.com prompt are not part of the daily Windows user experience anymore, while Linux and other Unix-like operating systems have always cultivated a very different approach to ...

Press the "Enter" key to boot into DOS mode. The MS-DOS command line interface should appear momentarily. Type in the desired DOS commands to execute them.

While I can't claim to have read all the books currently available on the subject of DOS, the best of those I've looked at are Using PC DOS, 2d ed. (1988), MS-DOS User's Guide, 3d ed. (1988), and DOS ...