It had an Intel 8088, two 5.25-inch floppy drives ... That was my first experience with an OS. And it wasn't MS-DOS. That came about ten years later in the early 90's when I got a 386 (and ...

To get the answer, just put a decimal point in the number "50"—my first Microsoft product was MS-DOS 5.0. Riding with DOS in the Windows era I remember this version of MS-DOS so vividly because ...

When I returned to PCMag in 2000, Apple was just starting to claw its way back to relevance, and Microsoft was ubiquitous.

It’s interesting that they would preserve what’s arguably the least popular version of MS-DOS in this way, but then again there’s something to be said for having a historical record on what ...

Still, of course, even modest hardware today is exponentially more potent than what the original generations of DOS users had to tolerate. The main two components are the AMD Ryzen 5 7600 CPU and ...

If when you try to move, delete, copy, or rename files/folders in Windows 11/10 and you receive the Invalid MS-DOS Function file error message, then this post will ...

MS-DOS 5.0 arrived soon after I started, and while I think its main innovation was support for 3.5-inch floppies, it was still a big deal. Two years later, Microsoft would deliver MS-DOS 6 ...