MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system. MS-DOS allows the ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Microsoft and IBM continued to co-develop MS-DOS for many years; the version IBM licensed and sold on its PCs was called PC DOS, though for most of their history the two products were identical.

Starfrost was interested in documenting the relationship between DOS 4, MT-DOS, and OS/2, and he was also trying to persuade the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) to release DOS 4 code.

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… ...