Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that ...

Before Windows, there was MS-DOS—that’s the Microsoft Disk Operating System, if you’re unfamiliar—a text-based, command-line interface operating system that was the way into managing files ...

As an Old System Fades Away, MS-DOS Is Well Hidden. June 13, 2001. By John Gilroy. QRunning Windows Me, I have tried everything I can think of to locate MS-DOS but have had no luck.

MS-DOS established the "standard" way to operate personal computers during the Eighties, and the text-based operating system was still playing a significant "startup" role in Windows at least ...

What Is MS-DOS? Whether you realize it or not, you’ve probably used MS-DOS. Short for “Microsoft Disc Operation System,” MS-DOS was the code almost every version of Windows has used “under ...

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 ...

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.

It's around this point that IBM's PC operating system, PC-DOS, began to diverge from MS-DOS -- and of course, come 1990, Microsoft released Windows 3.0, which would change Microsoft's focus forever.

A forensic computing researcher may have settled one of tech's longest standing controversies: whether the original version of Microsoft's seminal MS-DOS operating system contained code copied ...

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft developed the MS-DOS computer operating system in 1981 and released the last update in 2000. "The new system is much more up-to-date and more in line with ...