MS-DOS
The first popular Operating System released by Microsoft. It currently has historical status, but it's pieces are still used in Windows OS and various DOS emulators.
Development ceased in 2000. Mainstream support ended on December 31, 2001.
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Properties
- Lightweight
Features
- Command line interface
- Portable
- DOS emulation
Tags
- historical-status
MS-DOS News & Activities
Recent News
- Maoholguin published news article about MS-DOS
Microsoft and IBM make MS-DOS 4.00 Open-SourceMicrosoft, in collaboration with IBM, has recently made MS-DOS 4.00 open-source. The Microsoft Disk...
Recent activities
MS-DOS information
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What is MS-DOS?
The first popular Operating System released by Microsoft. It currently has historical status, but it's pieces are still used in Windows OS and various DOS emulators. *In 2018, Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 on GitHub under MIT license. Users are allowed and fully encouraged to fork the repository containing the MS-DOS source code and make their own modifications, and do whatever they like with it. Officially, other MS-DOS versions are still under prorpietary license due to the third-party licensing restrictions.
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