WHY Did MS-DOS Die Off? Photo credit: Microsoft/Wikimedia Commons Microsoft made continual improvements to MS-DOS throughout the 1980s. “Despite its primitive facilities, for fifteen years DOS was the ...

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Contrary to what many may think, MS-DOS wasn’t actually the creation of Microsoft—the then-newcomers licensed the disk system from a company called Seattle Computer Products (SCP) in 1981.

MS-DOS, despite the name, wasn’t made by Microsoft originally. It was engineered by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products, (SCP), a computer company in the Pacific Northwest.

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 ...

You need an MS-DOS system disk to boot the computer so you can change the BIOS. You can create the disk using Windows 98/Me by typing format a:/s from the command prompt. Once you've created the ...

Can you play DOS games online? Yes, you can play DOS games online. No matter whether you use Windows 11, Windows 10, or any other version, you can easily play MS-DOS games on your computer without ...

Right? As it turns out, getting MS-DOS 6.22 running on a modern computer isn’t nearly as hard as you’d think. In fact, it works pretty much perfectly. Assuming, that is, you pick the right ...

Microsoft, in conjunction with the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, has released the source code for MS-DOS 1.1, MS-DOS 2.0, and Word for Windows 1.1a. These programs are probably the ...

I’ve been using DOSBox for years, across Windows, Android, and Linux. But running MS-DOS software this effortlessly on a dedicated computer is just a far better solution.

The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded 86-DOS would later be bought by Microsoft and take over the computing world.

Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit Press, editing books on everything from the first iPhone to Python. He also worked at a handful of now-dead computer magazines ...