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In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...

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QRunning Windows Me, I have tried everything I can think of to locate MS-DOS but have had no luck. AThe MS-DOS prompt is still available in Windows Millennium Edition, but it can be easy to overlook.

MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System was the dominant operating system for Personal Computer throughout the 80s. MS-DOS is a non-graphical command line operating system. MS-DOS allows the user to ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

Microsoft is celebrating 50 years of existence in April, and whether you like it or not, this organization changed the lives of generations of us with its products and services. It’s synonymous with ...

FreeDOS is an open source operating system that allows you to run MS-DOS applications even though Microsoft stopped developing and supporting MS-DOS more than two decades ago. While FreeDOS has been ...

What was Microsoft’s best Windows operating system of all time? If you’re like us, you have…opinions. Even if you’re not the type to parse through all of the little details that separated Windows 98 ...

Ever wonder how electronic music was made 30 years ago? No? Well, we’ll show you anyway. In today’s age, with programs like Logic, Pro Tools and Garage Band, almost anyone can create music without ...

On September 14, 2000, Microsoft released Windows ME, the last version of Windows based on the operating system dinosaur ...

If Bill Gates is known for founding Microsoft and building it into one of the world’s most powerful companies, Paul Allen might be best known for founding Microsoft — and then, in 1983, walking away.