Before Windows introduced its modern GUI system, Microsoft was well-known for its iconic command-line operating system, MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating ... veteran engineer Dave Plummer, better ...

Microsoft stepped in with the text-based MS-DOS, or the Microsoft Disk Operating System — which, funnily enough, it didn't develop itself, instead buying the license to the technology from a ...

the Quick and Dirty Operating System, redubbed the Microsoft Disk Operating System. Microsoft will still produce prodigious cash flow, for years to come. But all its money cannot bring back its ...