Linux is very good at running older software, but even the free and open-source operating system is stumped by the really ancient stuff developed for MS-DOS. Let’s go over how you can get MS-DOS ...

MT-DOS (Multitasking DOS), and OS/2, and was in communication with Ray Ozzie, chief technical officer at Microsoft, about his collection. Starfrost found unreleased beta binaries of MS-DOS 4.0 on ...

You're writing an operating system. (Or, if you're being charitable, you're writing an MS-DOS shell.)" And Microsoft, of course, already had one of those. The Windows 3.1 runtime – which was ...

This name reflected its primary purpose as a graphical interface manager designed to enhance the usability of the MS-DOS operating system. However, marketers at Microsoft recognized that the name ...

The prompt-based operating system didn't actively prevent anyone from bringing images to the screen, but programmers had to manually implement all graphical functions. MS-DOS provided no graphics ...

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 ...