Unless you're ready to dedicate a whole computer to the DOS life, setting up FreeDOS requires a virtual machine of some kind. FreeDOS recommends a few different options on its site. I chose ...

It runs directly on the machine it’s installed on and behaves almost like a carbon copy of the DOS of yesteryear ... Install ...

This means that they can, in theory at least, still run MS-DOS. The venerable Microsoft 16-bit OS may now be long discontinued, but there is still enough need for DOS that the open-source FreeDOS ...

We can’t help but notice that DOS v3.0 didn’t get invited to the party — perhaps it was decided that it wasn’t historically significant enough to include. That said, readers with ...

Executable code generally refers to machine language, which is the set of native instructions the computer carries out in hardware. Executable files in the DOS/Windows world use .EXE and .COM file ...