It’s a piece of common knowledge, that MS-DOS wasn’t capable of multitasking. For that, the Microsoft-based PC user would have to wait for the 80386, and usable versions of Windows.

If you thought you were safe from this by sticking to an ancient MS-DOS PC though, think again: [Yeo Kheng Meng] has recently written a ChatGPT client that runs on DOS. [Yeo Kheng Meng] didn’t ...

DOS_deck allows you to play MS-DOS games straight on your Steam Deck ... The layout looks almost identical to the Steam Deck UI, down to the black borders, gray background, and the way the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Before Windows, there was MS-DOS—that’s the Microsoft Disk ...

FreeDOS is an operating system that can run MS-DOS programs natively and will appeal more to enthusiasts. DOSBox is an ...

Back in the eighties and nineties, when there were no PlayStations and gaming consoles around, the only entertainment on the PCs was the MS-DOS games. Once served as the main operating system of ...

It's no joke. Microsoft and IBM have joined forces to open-source the 1988 operating system MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT License. Why? Well, why not? That got Hanselman and Wilcox digging into the ...

Microsoft, in collaboration with IBM, has announced that it is open-sourcing MS-DOS 4.00 as the two worked together on the underlying code. MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was first ...

Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work. By Andrew Paul Published Jan 5, 2024 2:13 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily ...

Microsoft has announced that it is open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0, in collaboration with IBM, who developed portions of the code. It will be available under the MIT license. This came about because an ...