WHY Did MS-DOS Die Off? Photo credit: Microsoft/Wikimedia Commons Microsoft made continual improvements to MS-DOS throughout the 1980s. “Despite its primitive facilities, for fifteen years DOS was the ...

MS-DOS, despite the name, wasn’t made by Microsoft originally. It was engineered by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, (SCP), a computer company in the Pacific Northwest.

There's nothing stopping you except sheer willpower.You know your brand-new computer is all set to run today's top-of-the-line software. What you probably spend less time pondering is "legacy ...

Once you’ve created the MS-DOS boot disk, you can copy your BIOS files to it. I don’t run Windows 98 here anymore, so I created an MS-DOS system disk using someone else’s computer.

As the Computer History Museum notes, PC DOS version 1.0 was shipped when IBM first released its PC in August, 1981, and released version 2.0 with the IBM PC-XT in March of 1983.

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 ...

The archaic MS-DOS operating system started as a request by IBM. Microsoft acquired the rights to 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, which would eventually become MS-DOS and PC-DOS, the latter ...

Two years later the ”laptop” computer, a battery-powered MS-DOS machine with floppy and hard-disk drives, appeared, weighing about 16 pounds and compact enough to use on an airplane.

PC-MOS/386, a 30-year-old MS-DOS clone operating system, is back as open source. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Oct. 23, 2017 at 4:15 p.m. PT ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn't be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn't quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

In addition, Yeo targeted a computer with very limited processing power: a 1984 IBM 5155 Portable PC, which includes an Intel 8088 4.77 MHz CPU, 640KB conventional memory, CGA ISA graphics, and MS ...

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