To get the answer, just put a decimal point in the number "50"—my first Microsoft product was MS-DOS 5.0.

But I wasn't using it. Instead, I, like virtually every office worker in the world, was using an IBM PC (or a clone) and running MS-DOS, Microsoft's character-based operating system on which we ran ...

It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows.

If you thought you were safe from this by sticking to an ancient MS-DOS PC though, think again: [Yeo Kheng Meng] has recently written a ChatGPT client that runs on DOS. [Yeo Kheng Meng] didn’t ...

Earlier this month, hardware modder and retro computing enthusiast Yeo Kheng Meng shared footage of his "modern 2024" DOS PC on his self-titled blog, emphasizing its powerful internal specifications.

One of two hidden system files that made up Microsoft's MS-DOS. The other was IO.SYS. These two system files were loaded into memory when the computer was booted. They processed the instructions ...

FreeDOS creator and maintainer Jim Hall goes into more detail about the FreeDOS 1.4 changes here, and full release notes for the changes are here. The release has "a focus on stability" and includes ...

In the mid-1990s, Microsoft DOS dominated most PCs. Those who were a step ahead might’ve been using Windows 3.1, but even that was a superimposed user interface on top of MS-DOS. Windows was ...