Ok, I'm having another conversation with my professor about whether or not DOS is really an OS (Which, if it isn't would mean that everything through Win95 is not an OS). I have posted links stating ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

Update, July 5, 2021: It's the July 4 holiday weekend in the US, which means Ars staff gets a well-deserved holiday to catch up on this summer's Steam sale (or maybe just to rest). As such, we're ...

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

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DR DOS version 9.0 is now in beta testing, with Revision 291 recently released and available for anyone to download and test. Developer and Redditor CheeseWeezel announced the publicly available ...

The Rise of DOS: How Microsoft Got the IBM PC OS Contract The reason Microsoft became so big comes down to the best deal ever made in the history of computing, between the fledgling software company ...

Editor's take: Microsoft continues to tightly control the release of some of its most important pieces of legacy software. While enthusiasts and programmers are eager to see newer versions of MS-DOS ...

Lordy, lordy, look who’s 40! Happy birthday, Unix — you’re looking great for your age. You certainly weren’t the first operating system on any platform, but you managed to stride from the minicomputer ...