ZDNet

MS-DOS variant PC-MOS/386 reborn as open source

Do you still long to run WordPerfect 5.1, Lotus 1-2-3 4, or Doom on DOS? Well, if you do, there's a new way to revisit the PC world of the 1980s: The newly open-sourced PC-MOS/386 v501. PC-MOS, for ...
GeekWire

Microsoft reveals source code for MS-DOS and early Word

Ever wonder what made MS-DOS tick? Soon, interested geeks will be able to root around inside the original source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0, as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1, as a part of a ...
Hackaday

MS-DOS Meets The Fediverse

The first step is getting DOS 6.22, the most recent version released in 1994, set up with all the drivers and software needed to access the Internet. At the time of its release there were many ...
techtimes

Internet Archive Adds Thousands Of MS-DOS Games

"Mr. Blobby," a DOS game from 1994. The Internet Archive has released more than 2,500 MS-DOS games that can be accessed and played by anyone. Archive The Internet Archive has expanded its offerings to ...
The Verge

Early source code for Microsoft’s MS-DOS and Word will be preserved in a museum

Microsoft announced today that it’s partnering with the Computer History Museum to make the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to the public for the first time.
eWeek

Microsoft Revisits the ’80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...
TweakTown

Source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows goes online

Microsoft has the most popular operating system in the world, granted a lot of people hate it. If you look back at the history of the computer world, Microsoft has been around almost as long as the PC ...
CNET

Now play 2,500 MS-DOS games on your laptop. Here's how

Clifford led How To coverage. He spent a handful of years at Peachpit Press, editing books on everything from the first iPhone to Python. He also worked at a handful of now-dead computer magazines, ...
Ars Technica

Relive your worst MS-DOS file-deletion memories at the Malware Museum

Archive.org has gone to great lengths to preserve and host dated software, but up until last week, its vast collection of classic games and MS-DOS executables skewed toward the overly safe side. Sure, ...
Computerworld

Booting in MS-DOS

Reader Steve P. sends in this question: “I’m running Windows 2000 and want to upgrade my system BIOS. The instructions say to create a bootable disk with the format a:/s command. However, the /s doesn ...
PC World

Microsoft publishes MS-DOS, Word for Windows source code

Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...