Instead of writing one, Gates reached out to Paterson and purchased 86-DOS from him, allegedly for $50,000. Microsoft turned it into Microsoft Disk Operating System, or MS-DOS, which they ...

There are some old DOS applications that you just can't afford to lose (or games you still like), and Windows 10 lets you keep them. Here's how.

DOSBox is an emulator that runs classic DOS games on modern PCs, and it’s easily installable through Steam’s desktop mode. In the desktop taskbar, click the shopping bag icon to launch the ...

When MS-DOS 5.0 launched in 1991, the computing world looked vastly different from today. A typical PC might include a 286 or 386 processor, a mere 4MB of RAM was considered wildly generous, and ...

Building a complete operating system by compiling its source code is not something for the faint-hearted; a modern Linux or BSD distribution contains thousands of packages with millions of lines of… ...