Some MS-DOS Commands 1] Opening MS-DOS To open MS-DOS press Start then type Command or CMD and you will see Command Prompt come up in the search. Click the Command prompt icon to open it or go to ...

Microsoft has released MS-DOS as open-source software -- again -- but this time, on GitHub. Party like it's 1983, baby.

Version 1.25 is comprised of just seven source files, including the original MS-DOS command-line shell (command.asm), with the binaries chewing up a mere 12 kilobytes of memory.

Many DOSBox forks have come and gone over the years. Arguably, the most significant was the DOSBox SVN Baum fork, which ...

Today, you can download the MS-DOS 4.0 source code and run it for yourself on an original IBM PC XT (surely someone has one still running somewhere), a newer Pentium, and with the open-source PCem ...

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 ...

How to Transfer Files in MS-DOS Mode. Moving files around by dragging and dropping in Windows Explorer is a simple task. Many long-time Windows users may never open a DOS command-line window and ...

I feel like Ars is a great place to ask this, because I trust there are geeks out there who lovingly maintain their old DOS machines so they can run WordStar 2000 and laugh at all of us using MS ...

Microsoft has announced that it is open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0, in collaboration with IBM, who developed portions of the code. It will be available under the MIT license.

Starfrost was interested in documenting the relationship between DOS 4, MT-DOS, and OS/2, and he was also trying to persuade the Microsoft Open Source Programs Office (OSPO) to release DOS 4 code.