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 ...

A late operating system, a stopgap deal, and the accident that made DOS dominant A blog post by programmer Nemanja Trifunovic ...

To a computer novice, the subject of operating systems is usually a cloudy one, a too-technical matter riddled with unintelligible terms such as ”DOS,” ”UNIX,” ”BIOS” and ”CP/M.” Even worse, computer ...

Microsoft co-founder recounts how IBM drastically underestimated the potential of nascent PC business -- which impacted early negotiations over terms for the DOS operating system. Charles Cooper was ...

Tony Smith puns it up, with “Kudos to QDOS”: On 27 July 1981, Microsoft gave the name MS-DOS to the…operating system it acquired on that day from Seattle Computer Products (SCP). … The company had ...

IBM Corp. is about to release a new upgrade of DOS, the venerable personal-computer operating system. Some version of DOS – mostly Microsoft Corp.’s MS-DOS and IBM’s PC DOS – is running on more than ...

Previous decades laid the groundwork for the wide adoption of the internet in the '90s. This piece of '80s technology was a ...