But, DOS was mostly ignored if you had the right drivers. When you ran a DOS box, that DOS box was itself contained within a separate virtual machine. With Windows 95, the separation was complete. It ...

Linux is very good at running older software, but even the free and open-source operating system is stumped by the really ancient stuff developed for MS-DOS. Let’s go over how you can get ...

You can now use Microsoft Edit to create and edit text files directly in Command Prompt or PowerShell without switching apps, ...

One of the commands that I miss most from Linux when working in Windows/DOS environments is the split command. This extremely handy command allows one to split a large file into multiple smaller files ...

Anyone who is 40 or under and raised as a user, rather than an expert, is unlikely to even remember MS-DOS. Let alone command-driven Unix. The point-and-click interface of Windows 3.0 dropped 20 years ...