The first is that Microsoft released MS-DOS version 6.22, the last version of its long-running operating system that would be sold to consumers as a standalone product.

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… ...

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.

Windows 95 officially released to the public on August 24 1995, setting the standard for the future of the tech giant’s ...

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 ...

Windows Millenium Edition (Windows ME) paralleled Windows 2000 as a consumer-first operating system still tied to the legacy of MS-DOS, but didn’t exactly overwhelm users with its new consumer ...

Before Microsoft’s “MS-DOS” rebrand, SCP first called their OS “Quick’n’Dirty Operating System” (QDOS), but soon swapped over to the more marketable 86-DOS name.

MS-DOS was the early operating system for IBM PC-compatible systems, before Windows fully took over the PC landscape. MS-DOS Editor was included the 1991 release of MS-DOS 5.0 as the new default text ...

That OS would later become known as MS-DOS. Not that long before this historical purchase, IBM came a'knockin' at Microsoft's door, in search of a 16-bit OS to run on its early PCs.

However, with the release of Windows 95, Microsoft integrated a version of MS-DOS with the operating system for bootstrapping, troubleshooting and backwards-compatibility with old DOS software. Later ...

Back in 1980, the ruling PC operating system was Digital Research’s CP/M for the z80 processor. At the same time, Tim Patterson created Quick and Dirty Operating System (QDOS).

MS-DOS wasn’t stolen, new forensic analysis concludes by Todd Bishop on August 6, 2012 at 5:11 pm Share 1 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...