If ever source code can be said to have helped launch an empire, the code behind the Apple II DOS would qualify. And now it's available to everyone. Last spring, CNET was first to report on the ...

That screenshot seems to be MS-DOS 5.0 or later. How many end users had hard drives when 4.0 was released? Click to expand... We had a 20MB hard drive in a PC-XT clone made by Sanyo which was running ...

Rumor has it that Microsoft copied CP/M to create the first version of MS-DOS for the IBM PC. These rumors have been put to rest on numerous occasions, but consultant Bob Zeidman — who himself found ...

" MS - DOS", which is an OS for PCs developed and sold by Microsoft, is one of the most important software in computer history. Source code of such MS - DOS finally was released on GitHub. GitHub - ...

A decade after releasing the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and MS-DOS 2.0, Microsoft has open sourced a (slightly) more recent operating system: MS-DOS 4.0. First released in 1988, you can now download ...

Well it’s the end of another March here in the Linux blogosphere, and that can mean only one thing: the arrival of another April Fools’ Day. As if on cue, Microsoft recently made an eminently Fools’ ...

The first Apple II delivery — complete with DOS 3.1 — was made in early June. But DOS was not what we, by today's standards, call a true "operating system." According to Laughton, the initial vision ...

Following on from the earlier collaboration with the Computer History Museum to release the source code for MS-DOS roughly 4 years ago. Microsoft has today announced the availability of the MS-DOS ...

Gary Kildall started Intergalactic Digital Research (later shortened to Digital Research or just DRI) and created the first microcomputer operating system, CP/M, used on many hobbyist personal ...

The BrakTooth set of security vulnerabilities impacts at least 11 vendors’ chipsets. Researchers have disclosed a group of 16 different vulnerabilities collectively dubbed BrakTooth, which impact ...