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. MS-DOS allows the ...

My very first technology article, back in 1987, was about MS-DOS 3.30. Almost 30 years later, I’m still writing, but the last bit of MS-DOS, cmd.exe — the command prompt — is on its way out ...

In the MS-Dos operating system, standard system commands are used to carry out various tasks like deleting specific files, changing the directory, listing contents of the specified directory, etc. In ...

If you’ve used MS-DOS before then you’ll be right at home right away—if you haven’t, you’ll need to brush up on the commands (we’ve already mentioned a couple of them).

And for the past 36 years, every version of Windows still had a way for people to get to this MS DOS command prompt to find and manipulate files, for those needing to do things with their PCs in ...

MS-DOS came about in the early 1980s when Microsoft was chosen by IBM to provide the operating system for a new line of PCs. Because they didn’t have one of their own, on July 27, 1981, they ...

It sure looked like Microsoft was putting MS-DOS out to pasture. Now it’s saying that the MS-DOS command prompt cmd will continue to live on.

It's important to understand that in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP, the commands are known as CMD commands or Command Prompt commands. In contrast, commands in Windows 98/95 and MS-DOS are ...