How early DOS command-line skills helped me climb the Linux learning curve.

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 ...

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations ...

Microsoft has published the earliest-discovered version of the DOS operating system on an open-source GitHub repo. This comes after MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.x were open-sourced in 2018 and the source for ...

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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. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

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Tony Smith puns it up, with “Kudos to QDOS”: On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the…operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP). … The company had ...

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I always thought it stood for Disk Operating System. I was fucking around with it back in the early 80's after I got out of the Navy, and had taken some BASIC courses. I wrote a program to find out ...