MS-DOS allows the user to navigate, open, and otherwise manipulate files on their computer from a command line instead of a Graphic User Interface (GUI) like Windows.

Early versions of Windows were essentially a graphical user interface overlaid on MS-DOS. Compared with today’s pixel-packed mobile touch-screens and visually slick operating systems, MS-DOS is ...

Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux. ... Nano/pico pretty much scratches all the itches for a basic user interface for text.

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.

Even though we were up to Windows 3.0 by now, most of our coverage was devoted to DOS and the applications you ran on it. MS-DOS 5.0 arrived soon after I started, and while I think its main ...

Microsoft rebooted its old and unimproved MS-DOS interface for mobile phones on Wednesday, touting it as the “simplest OS yet” in what may be the company’s most elaborate April Fool’s Day ...

For millions of users, MS-DOS Editor became their first introduction to "modern" text editing—a stepping stone between the command-line era and the graphical interfaces that would soon dominate.