Q–I used to like to write my own programs on MS-DOS-based computers using the QBasic programming language built into the operating system. I did this for the challenge rather than because I n… ...

By that I mean I have a couple of quite elaborate QBasic (and GWBasic) programs I wrote and still use. I also have a large (for me) database on an old PFS:First Choice DOS program.

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 ...