MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an adaptation of QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) by developer Tim Paterson. It was destined to be the operating system for the IBM Personal ...

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 ...

Windows 95 and 98 run a "kernel" -- the foundation of the operating system -- that processes data in 16-bit chunks, just as the old disk-operating system did.

MS-DOS was an acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, and if you’ve ever opened Command Prompt, that’s the closest representation of how the OS worked.

Windows 95 officially released to the public on August 24 1995, setting the standard for the future of the tech giant’s ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn't be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn't quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system.

In 1980, IBM hired Microsoft to write an operating system for its IBM Personal Computer. Allen and Gates secured the deal without actually having an operating system ready for IBM.

However, Diode Milliampere shows us how to make sick electro-music using MS-DOS (short for Microsoft Disk Operating System). This operating system was the most commonly used for IBM and their ...

Publisher D4 Enterprise's EGGCONSOLE series has been giving the absolute most hardcore of JRPG lovers a window into the ...

In honor of Microsoft's 50th anniversary, we've ranked the best Windows consumer operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped, in order from worst to best.