Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Windows 95, the operating system that revolutionized personal computing and introduced technologies still standard today. With limited consumer internet in ...

DOS is gone now. Most old DOS programs lost Windows compatibility after the release of Windows 98, and Microsoft even held a mock funeral for the once-dominant PC operating system about a decade ago.

MS-DOS In 1981, MS-DOS became Microsoft’s first operating system, bringing the company worldwide recognition. This «black screen» was developed for the IBM PC, and it was based on 86-DOS, which ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market.

There was nothing particularly exciting about DOS or Microsoft, at least back then. It was pervasive but not iconic. If I'm being honest, I didn't even know who ran the company, but when someone ...

Before Windows, there was MS-DOS —that’s the Microsoft Disk Operating System, if you’re unfamiliar—a text-based, command-line interface operating system that was the way into managing ...

2) A true operating system Some people argued too that Windows 95 wasn't really an OS and was actually more of a GUI - Like Windows 3x - that sat over DOS.

One of the differences between the new Windows Me and the operating system it upgrades, Windows 98, is DOS. If you hold down the Ctrl key while Windows 98 is booting, a menu is displayed. From ...

Before Windows was created, the most common operating system that ran on IBM PC compatibles was DOS. DOS stands for Disk Operating System and was what you would use if you had started your ...

MS-DOS Editor has all the features as Notepad, and more! With it you can also work with multiple text files, change background colors, change the color of the text, etc.