Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...

The IBM PC was an also-ran in computer gaming until the late 1980s, when MS-DOS suddenly and forcefully found its footing. A new book from Jamie Lendino covers a vital and defining period in PC gaming ...

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the Lakeside Programming group in ...

In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

Editor's take: Microsoft continues to tightly control the release of some of its most important pieces of legacy software. While enthusiasts and programmers are eager to see newer versions of MS-DOS ...

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...

Microsoft just released the source code for 86-DOS 1.00, made available as an open-source project on GitHub. The release marks the 45th anniversary of 86-DOS 1.00, created by Tim Paterson, which would ...

You can now play classic DOS games on your Mac in your browser, thanks to the online service DOS_deck. Here's how to use it. At the dawn of the personal computer era ...

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system. MS-DOS allows the user to ...

In this guide, we'll show you how to build a retro gaming PC, based on original hardware from the 1990s, with a few modern touches. It can run DOS games and early Windows games, but it'll also look ...