Project claims legal clarity and zero legacy code, but offers binaries only DR-DOS is back, and there is already a test ...

Microsoft earlier today, in collaboration with IBM, announced that it is open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code. The company has explained what was special about it and how to run it. Recently, we ...

Microsoft has open-sourced another bit of computing history this week: The company teamed up with IBM to release the source code of 1988’s MS-DOS 4.00, a version better known for its unpopularity, ...

DOS 4.00 was supposed to add multitasking to the OS, but it was not to be.

If you are an inveterate tinkerer—and a lot of scientists can certainly be classified as such—it's likely that you'll eventually develop a yen for customizing your PC once the pleasure of mastering ...

For more than 50 years, Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) has been one of the world’s most influential companies, now a titan in software (Microsoft 365), cloud computing (Microsoft Azure), and AI ...

After [Andy]’s discovery of an old ISA soundcard at his parents’ place that once was inside the family PC, the onset of a wave of nostalgia for those old-school sounds drove him off the deep end. This ...