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What's not arguable is that those DOS underpinnings make those operating systems less stable than Windows NT and Windows 2000, which are written from the ground up as 32-bit operating systems.

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Windows 95, the operating system that revolutionized personal computing and introduced ...

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FreeDOS is an open source operating system that allows you to run MS-DOS applications even though Microsoft stopped developing and supporting MS-DOS more than two decades ago. While FreeDOS has ...

It's baaack! Microsoft and IBM open source MS-DOS 4.0 How did the operating system so bad it likely steered users to Linux 35 years ago come to be open-sourced now? Here's what happened.

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the original IBM PC is how Microsoft ended up with the contract for the operating system. This would eventually make Microsoft's MS-DOS the standard and ...

30 years ago today, Microsoft bought the rights to the Quick and Dirty OS, re-branded it as MS-DOS, struck a deal with IBM, and made history.

Say goodbye to the MS-DOS command prompt opinion Dec 6, 2016 5 mins Computers Microsoft Operating Systems ...

Its creator, Linus Torvalds, now 28, a Finnish programmer, decided in 1991 that he didn’t care for Microsoft’s MS-DOS, the predominant operating system at the time.

Microsoft on Tuesday "dusted off" the source code for early versions of the iconic MS-DOS operating system and '90s-vintage Word for Windows and released it to the public for the first time.