Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System
How Gary Kildall pioneered the PC operating system but lost the business to Microsoft
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How Gary Kildall pioneered the PC operating system but lost the business to Microsoft
86-DOS functions and tools are explored by a retrocomputing archaeologist who writes some CP/M Z80 code, ports it over to 86-DOS, and then runs it.
Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work.
An intrepid code archaeologist has found and uploaded an early ancestor of what became MS-DOS, which later sparked the IBM PC-compatible computer industry.…
The earliest known version of 86-DOS, which is basically the great grandfather of Microsoft DOS has arrived on the internet, thanks to a tech enthusiast who has uploaded the version to the Archive.