For instance, the command prompt showing the current drive ... MS-DOS, sold under IBM's licence as PC-DOS, would cost you $40, while UCSD Pascal would cost you over $500. IBM also announced ...

Almost 30 years later, I’m still writing, but the last bit of MS-DOS, cmd.exe — the command prompt — is ... Until, that is, IBM decided to build an 8086-based PC. For this new gadget ...

[Yeo Kheng Meng] didn’t cheat by simply running MS-DOS on a modern PC, either: he tested the client on a real 1984 vintage IBM 5155 Portable PC. This semi-portable PC/XT model sports a 4.77 MHz ...

IBM was going to move ahead with a 16-bit PC, as Microsoft wanted ... And, finally, the command processor displays the iconic “C:>” prompt and waits for users to type commands. “MS-DOS was basically a ...

Plenty of people will choose to run actual MS-DOS or IBM PC-DOS on these systems, and MS-DOS is what the manufacturer ships them with. But the benefit of FreeDOS' continuing development is that it ...

Before Windows was created, the most common operating system that ran on IBM PC compatibles ... systems do not run on DOS, they do have something called the command prompt, which has a similar ...

FreeDOS is an open-source recreation of MS-DOS, capable of running new and old DOS games and applications on real PCs or emulators. Today, the project is turning 30 years old. The FreeDOS project ...

Microsoft co-founder recounts how IBM drastically underestimated the potential of nascent PC business -- which impacted early negotiations over terms for the DOS operating system. Charles Cooper ...

In the world of PC graphics, the early standards followed the various video cards of the day. There was MDA, familiar through the original text-based DOS prompt, CGA, then EGA, and the non-IBM ...

and PC-focused initiatives such as GOG have infused new life (and new sale opportunities) into the cold, dead bones of gaming experiences born out of the MS-DOS command prompt. True DOS gaming ...

This allowed the IBM PC-XT to boot up the PC-DOS 2.0 operating system from the hard drive, rather than rely on using a floppy disk. The PC did come with a 5.25-inch floppy disk drive as well.