Windows 1.0 Five years later, a revolutionary operating system was born, which «borrowed» some ideas from the creations of Steve Jobs and his team. Windows 1.0 was Microsoft’s first attempt to create ...

While there are plenty of ways to run MS-DOS apps on modern hardware using an emulator, FreeDOS is a complete 16-bit operating system that can be installed on old computers with XT, 286, and 386 ...

Indeed, they would soon realize that under the name MS-DOS, the new operating system would be crucial to the success of Microsoft. In May 1981, Paterson left SCP and joined Microsoft.

Windows Millenium Edition (Windows ME) paralleled Windows 2000 as a consumer-first operating system still tied to the legacy of MS-DOS, but didn’t exactly overwhelm users with its new consumer ...

/EDIT: Sorry all for three new topics, I posted in less than 30 mins, but I am on dial-up, and I usually write posts and mails, when not connected, and then when I on-line (for an hour or so), I ...

It might seem like the days of MS-DOS were a lifetime ago because…well, they basically were. Version 6.22 of the venerable operating system, the last standalone release, came out back in 1994.

The first step is getting DOS 6.22, the most recent version released in 1994, set up with all the drivers and software needed to access the Internet. At the time of its release there were many ...

X user konkretor recently discovered a job listing seeking an IT professional with knowledge of legacy operating systems including Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS.