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PD-DOS would soon be renamed FreeDOS, and 30 years and many contributions later, it stands as the last MS-DOS-compatible operating system still under active development.

It's baaack! Microsoft and IBM open source MS-DOS 4.0 How did the operating system so bad it likely steered users to Linux 35 years ago come to be open-sourced now? Here's what happened.

Microsoft has once again made the source code of a version of its ancient MS-DOS operating system available for download.

SvarDOS is an open source DOS distribution, and it’s interesting because it uses a derivative of the DR-DOS kernel, an OS which traces its roots back to Digital Research’s CP/M operating ...

The history of Microsoft’s flagship operating system (OS) includes all of that and so much more. Over the past 35 years, the Windows operating system has been through many reinventions.

MS-DOS MS-DOS (Credit: Microsoft/PCMag) As PC Magazine described it in its February-March 1982 issue, "MS-DOS is a single-task microcomputer disk operating system for the Intel 8086 and 8008 ...

Earlier MS-DOS editions held an important place in the history of software as an operating system written entirely in 8086 assembly code 45 years ago, Microsoft remarks.

A lot has changed since Windows debuted in 1985 as a “graphical operating environment which runs on the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system.” For one, due in large part to the success of Windows ...