In context: Back in 1980, Tim Paterson was creating a new operating system he called QDOS or Quick and Dirty Operating System. The system was later renamed 86-DOS, as it was being designed to run on ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

With permission from Apple, The Computer History Museum and the Digibarn Computer Museum announced today it is publishing the original DOS source code for Apple’s 1978 Apple II. The Apple II was the ...

A collection of documents detailing Apple's work on its first disk-based operating system recently surfaced at the DigiBarn computer museum, and CNET got a first-hand look at the compilation. The ...

Getting started with Tails, the encrypted, leave-no-trace operating system Your email has been sent Tails, an encrypted and anonymous OS that bundles widely used open source privacy tools on a tiny ...

The term DOS stands for Disk Operating System developed by Microsoft for micro computers. DOS is a single user operating system. It has a Character User Interface (CUI) i.e., communication between a ...