No. Despite all the Windows hype, there are still strong DOS offerings of favorite programs. And two powerful new WordPerfect offerings fill out the lineup even more – version 6.0 of WordPerfect’s ...

When MS-DOS 5.0 was launched in 1991, one of its major innovations was the MS-DOS Editor, a classic text editor that quickly ...

In Windows, users can run DOS programs along side Windows programs. Pressing Alt-Tab switches between all open DOS and Windows applications. DOS programs are usually run in a window so they can be ...

Strictly-speaking modern x86 computers running Windows should be compatible with any software written for the very first MS-DOS PCs starting with the original IBM PC and its clones. In practice, it's ...

My father is currently using an old Windows 95 machine circa 1999 to run a DOS program which he uses to bill the government. Buying a new program is not really an option because all the modern ...

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.

It's completely legal to explore vast swaths of the history of PC gaming without paying a dime. I’m PCMag’s home theater and AR/VR expert, and your go-to source of information and recommendations for ...

Update, July 5, 2021: It's the July 4 holiday weekend in the US, which means Ars staff gets a well-deserved holiday to catch up on this summer's Steam sale (or maybe just to rest). As such, we're ...

Microsoft has made the computer code behind behind its first operating system, MS-DOS, available for free - and revealed programmers included jokes in their code. Launched in 1982, MS-DOS, the 'Disk ...

When old programmers like me (I'm 41) get together we talk about the applications from the old days. What happens to these beauties? The answer, obviously, is that their fate only matters if people ...