Amazingly, Microsoft is fixing a bug that has existed in the Windows Virtual DOS Machine (VDM) subsystem since it was added to Windows NT way back in the simple days of 1993, when flannels were ...

There’s still a lot of work to be done, but outside of finding a 20-year-old computer, emulation on a Raspberry Pi it probably the most authentic DOS gaming experience you’ll get.

The US government’s Computer Emergency Response Team issued a warning about these “DNS recursive DoS attacks” in November 2005. This report (pdf format) contains information on protecting ...

The hottest book series in the past decade was not written on a modern PC, but rather on an obsolete DOS-based machine running WordStar 4.0. Charles Gantt TweakTown Published May 14, 2014 12:08 PM CDT ...

The IBM PC was an also-ran in computer gaming until the late 1980s, when MS-DOS suddenly and forcefully found its footing. A new book from Jamie Lendino covers a vital and defining period in PC ...

A friend threw this at me, he heard it on *two* talk shows, and one was a computer talk show. The computer person said XP was just an advanced DOS shell. The logic was that since you can run even ...

Specifically, Martin revealed that he hews his prose as the ancients did: from the rough slab of a DOS computer running Wordstar 4.0, a software forged in blood and iron in the dark year of 1987.

WordStar 4.0 was released in 1987 on DOS [Disk Operating System) computers that were commonly used in the late 80s and early 90s. Conan asked Martin why he'd stick with such an old machine.

I have the computer that I browse the internet with, that I get my email on and I do my taxes on. Then I have my writing computer, which is a DOS machine not connected to the internet.