Multitasking would become the purview of graphical operating systems like Windows and OS/2, while MS-DOS versions 5.x and 6.x continued with the old one-app-at-a-time model of earlier releases.

ArcaOS is a semi-modernized, intermittently updated branch of OS/2 updated to run on modern hardware while still supporting the ability to run MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows apps.

An operating system is essential software that manages computer hardware and software resources, providing common services for computer programs.

The Config.sys is the main configuration file used by OS/2, MS-DOS and other operating systems. Config.sys commands loads programs into the memory and sets ups the memory management of the system. The ...

MS-DOS and what came before Windows might seem like it’s been around forever, but it hasn’t. Windows was not Microsoft’s first OS. In fact, before Windows ever came along, PCs were run by ...

When it debuted in 1981, MS-DOS probably didn’t seem like a promising platform for gaming. But from roughly 1981 to 1997, publishers released thousands of games in every genre for the PC and its ...

That OS would later become known as MS-DOS. Not that long before this historical purchase, IBM came a'knockin' at Microsoft's door, in search of a 16-bit OS to run on its early PCs.

That OS was simply called DOS. ProDOS, released in 1983, included support for the new 3.5″ floppy drives, allowed for hierarchical directories, supported hardware interrupts, and kept the Apple ...

A forensic computing researcher may have settled one of tech's longest standing controversies: whether the original version of Microsoft's seminal MS-DOS operating system contained code copied ...