Last summer we took a look at FreeDOS as part of the Daily Drivers series, and found a faster and more complete successor to the DOS of old. The sojourn into the 16-bit OS wasn’t perfect ...

We’re used to updating Windows, macOS, and Linux systems at least once a month (and usually more), but people with ancient DOS-based PCs still get to join in the fun every once in a while. Over the ...

Some 17 years after its first release in 1994, and more than five years since 1.0, FreeDOS 1.1 -- the definitive, open source version of MS-DOS -- is now available to download. The history of FreeDOS ...

When I was a student, I was a diehard Commodore Amiga user, having upgraded to an A500+ from my Sinclair Spectrum. The Amiga could do it all, it became my programming environment for electronic ...

The FreeDOS project, an attempt to create an open-source alternative to Microsoft's MS-DOS operating system, has finally reached a major milestone. After years of work, version 1.0 of FreeDOS is now ...

Prompt Forever: FreeDOS is a free operating system designed to be a competent replacement for MS-DOS and other prompt-based operating systems. The project still has to achieve perfect compatibility ...

Twenty years ago this week, Jim Hall of St. Paul announced an ambitious effort to create a no-cost and free-to-modify version of MS-DOS, the commercial Microsoft operating system that largely launched ...

Two big things happened in the world of text-based disk operating systems in June 1994. The first is that Microsoft released MS-DOS version 6.22, the last version of its long-running operating system ...

This past June 29 marked the 30th anniversary of FreeDOS, the text-based operating system by American developer Jim Hall that carries on the tradition of the classic and iconic MS-DOS. In fact, ...

Some 17 years after its first release in 1994, and more than five years since 1.0, FreeDOS 1.1 -- the definitive, open source version of MS-DOS -- is now available to download. The history of FreeDOS ...