Similar to the previously unveiled 0.1-C release of 86-DOS, the original precursor of MS-DOS, the newly shared OS/2 2.0 build is a significant piece of early computing history.

But software archaeologist Neozeed recently published a stable internal preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 to the Internet Archive, along with working virtual machine disk images for VMware and ...

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MS-DOS established the "standard" way to operate personal computers during the Eighties, and the text-based operating system was still playing a significant "startup" role in Windows at least ...

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 ...

Multitasking would become the purview of graphical operating systems like Windows and OS/2, while MS-DOS versions 5.x and 6.x continued with the old one-app-at-a-time model of earlier releases.

The source code from MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0, as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, is made public under a non-commercial license that forbids re-publication elsewhere on the Web.