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FreeDOS 1.3 Has Arrived, Still Runs MS-DOS Games and Apps
It still has excellent compatibility with MS-DOS software, including Windows 3.1 and earlier, and many of the built-in ...
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FreeDOS 1.4 Released
Even in 2025 there are still many applications for a simple Disk Operating System (DOS), whether this includes running legacy ...
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I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, and Microsoft turning 50 is more important than you think
Instead, I, like virtually every office worker in the world, was using an IBM PC (or a clone) and running MS-DOS, Microsoft's character-based operating system on which we ran everything from word ...
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When It Comes To DOS, Don’t Forget DR-DOS.
This means that they can, in theory at least, still run MS-DOS. The venerable Microsoft 16 ... the ability to run Windows 3.1 should you ever feel the need. They take it for a spin in the linked ...
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DOS/Windows
(1) Commands and functions that work equally in DOS and Windows. DOS was the underlying control program for the early versions of Windows, and most all the DOS functionality was built into later ...
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During its earliest days in development, Windows 1.0 was known by what name?
Unlike the command-line interface of DOS, Windows provided users with an intuitive ... Reversi (a simple game), Cardfile, Terminal, and Write (a rudimentary word processor). However, the user ...