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

I still find myself doing things in Windows a DOS prompt because it's just so much faster. I believe the last version of MS-DOS to come with a decent manual was 5.0, and I'm sure you can find a copy ...

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 ...

But then you had the 80836 and virtual memory; it could remap high RAM into a window in the upper memory area, so that DOS programs could see and access it just like an expanded memory hardware ...