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, ...

DOS is a command line interface that can be used as a standalone operating system or in conjunction with another operating system. The main function of DOS in modern operating systems is to run batch ...

One safe technology prediction for this year is that we’ll see new operating systems and new user interfaces on personal computers. Mac OS X (referred to as “10”), Microsoft’s code-named “Whistler” ...

Lordy, lordy, look who’s 40! Happy birthday, Unix — you’re looking great for your age. You certainly weren’t the first operating system on any platform, but you managed to stride from the minicomputer ...

On November 20th, 1985, a then not-so-big company called Microsoft announced that Windows was commercially available. Read the full story of the Microsoft operating system below. Windows 1 to 11: The ...

You will find the complete list of MS-DOS commands below. However, MS-DOS commands are not the same as Windows command line commands or Powershell commands. MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is ...

First developed in 1981 by computer scientist Chase Bishop, the software project was initially called "Interface Manager." This name reflected its primary purpose as a graphical interface manager ...