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FreeDOS, the Open-Source MS-DOS, Is Now 30 Years Old (And Still Going)
That last feature was never in the public releases of MS-DOS, only the underlying DOS system in Windows 95. If you have the right hardware, you can do networking and use basic web browsers.
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Remembering MS-DOS 5.0, my first Microsoft product, on the company’s 50th birthday
A story about an obsolete PC, an old library book, and a one version of MS-DOS.
I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning 50 is more important than you think
There was nothing particularly exciting about DOS or Microsoft, at least back then. It was pervasive but not iconic. If I'm ...
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Microsoft Updates MS-DOS GitHub Repo To 4.0
It’s interesting that they would preserve what’s arguably the least popular version of MS-DOS in this way, but then again there’s something to be said for having a historical record on what ...