XDA Developers on MSN

Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...
Indiatimes

British businessman Alan Sugar celebrates 39 years of the world's first affordable IBM-compatible PC whose sub-$500 pricing 'left everyone amazed'

Alan Sugar, the British business magnate, celebrated the 39th anniversary of the Amstrad PC1512. He launched this affordable IBM-compatible PC on September 2, 1986. The Amstrad PC1512 was priced at ...
GitHub

DOSXBox is an emulator port for XBox360 which emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS.

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. DOSXBox is an emulator which emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS. It is intended ...
GitHub

Runtime error on PC DOS 3.3 with 8088MPH

As discussed on vogons, here is a .vhd with the PC DOS 3.3 that causes an error with 8088mph. The demo is located at c:\demos\8088mph (but also occurs if you mount ...