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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, ...

That screenshot seems to be MS-DOS 5.0 or later. How many end users had hard drives when 4.0 was released? Click to expand... We had a 20MB hard drive in a PC-XT clone made by Sanyo which was running ...

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Fond memories of beige machines. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add us as a preferred source on Google Ah, the PC in the spare ...

OpenAI's interactive AI ChatGPT is an AI that responds with natural sentences similar to humans just by entering text. Engineer Yeo Kheng Meng reported that he developed a client for DOS using this ...

AI-powered chatbots are clearly the future of computing, and it’s only a matter of time before you’ll see them appear on every internet-connected gadget. If you thought you were safe from this by ...

IBM PCThe characters that appear on the BIOS screen of the BIOS screen let me feel excellent design with a dot feeling that gives us somewhere calm after seeing it for over 30 years. Font pack packed ...

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. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

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Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the IBM PC is how Microsoft ended up with the contract for the operating system, which would eventually make Microsoft's MS-DOS the standard and set the stage ...