Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work.

The oldest-known version of MS-DOS’s predecessor has been discovered and uploaded 86-DOS would later be bought by Microsoft and take over the computing world.

MS-DOS established the "standard" way to operate personal computers during the Eighties, and the text-based operating system was still playing a significant "startup" role in Windows at ...

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.

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 ...

As we’ve said, there are various different ways to get MS-DOS running on modern systems, to suit different setups and requirements, and we can’t cover them all here.

Right? As it turns out, getting MS-DOS 6.22 running on a modern computer isn’t nearly as hard as you’d think. In fact, it works pretty much perfectly. Assuming, that is, you pick the right ...

A forensic computing researcher may have settled one of tech's longest standing controversies: whether the original version of Microsoft's seminal MS-DOS operating system contained code copied ...

Before Windows, there was DOS. Here are the rarest and most expensive MS-DOS games from the golden age of computing.