Want to play over 2,000 MS-DOS-based games on your browser right this very minute? Then you need to head over to the Internet Archive.

1. Head to the Internet Library's latest software collection of MS-DOS games. 2. Locate a game you want to play from the list of 2,500 games and tap its title. Tap the power button to get going.

Some expensive DOS game images. Back in the early days of personal computers, one of the most popular interfaces was MS-DOS, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System. Unlike competitors ...

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 ...

If you’ve used MS-DOS before then you’ll be right at home right away—if you haven’t, you’ll need to brush up on the commands (we’ve already mentioned a couple of them).

“Microsoft was slow to deliver versions of its languages compatible with CP/M-86, and when it did, they were priced 50 percent higher than the versions compatible with MS-DOS,” Ruffer and Waldman note ...

In talking to IBM, Bill Gates heard of IBM's predicament for an operating system so he went out and bought one, and hired the guy that created it to turn it into MS DOS. It was one that competed ...

30 years ago today, Microsoft bought the rights to the Quick and Dirty OS, re-branded it as MS-DOS, struck a deal with IBM, and made history.

Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work. By Andrew Paul Published Jan 5, 2024 2:13 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

This isn't the first time Microsoft has released MS-DOS source code. Back in 2014, Microsoft open-sourced the MS-DOS source code for versions 1.25 and 2.0 via the Computer History Museum.

A forensic computing researcher may have settled one of tech's longest standing controversies: whether the original version of Microsoft's seminal MS-DOS operating system contained code copied ...