Two years later, Microsoft would deliver MS-DOS 6, which added memory optimization and disk compression, and also inadvertently introduced the concept of 'Sherlocking,' a process whereby Microsoft's ...

The first step is getting DOS 6.22, the most recent version released in 1994, set up with all the drivers and software needed to access the Internet. At the time of its release there were many ...

If you’re waiting to take a look at what was under the hood in the final MS-DOS 6.22 release, sit tight. At this rate we should be seeing it sometime in the 2030s.

Starting with DOS 6, the Interlink utility transferred files between two PCs connected via their serial or parallel ports. The Copy and Xcopy commands were used to perform the operation.

An external DOS command prior to DOS 6 that read data on disks that were physically damaged. It read files a sector at a time recovering whatever data it could and put the recovered files into the ...