It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows. But… ...

April 29, 2015 7:25 p.m. PT 2 min read Screenshot by Claire Reilly/CNET Update, Monday at 7:05 p.m. PT:Twitter declined to comment on the removal of the playable MS-DOS games feature in its feeds.

Building an Internet-friendly DOS The official current version (FreeDOS version 1.1, released in 2011) is available as a live CD image, but the default installation lacks many of the pieces you ...

MS-DOS and the Command.com prompt are not part of the daily Windows user experience anymore, while Linux and other Unix-like operating systems have always cultivated a very different approach to ...

I mentioned before that you could create an MS-DOS boot disk in Windows XP. Several readers have asked about the procedure, so here it is. Insert a disk into your floppy disk drive and run Windows ...

Ten years after releasing the source code of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft is making yet another contribution to the world of open-source software preservation.

Retro gaming often seeks to make new games using an old tech. A new Kickstarter, though, is trying to recreate a classic: solitaire for MS-DOS, shipped on a floppy disk.