FreeDOS, the free and open-source alternative to Microsoft DOS (MS-DOS), just released a new major update. It still has excellent compatibility with MS-DOS software, including Windows 3.1 and earlier, ...

Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS) and its competitors reigned supreme in the early days of the IBM PC-compatibles, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, before Microsoft Windows started to ...

FreeDOS is an open source operating system that allows you to run MS-DOS applications even though Microsoft stopped developing and supporting MS-DOS more than two decades ago. While FreeDOS has been ...

The first version of FreeDOS was released on September 16 of 1994, following Microsoft’s decision to cease development on MS-DOS in favor of Windows. This version 0.01 was still an Alpha release, with ...

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 ...

FreeDOS is an open source operating system designed to let you run DOS programs without installing an operating system that Microsoft abandoned decades ago. Unlike some other open source alternatives ...

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 though, as we ...

Right now, as I sit here typing these words, it is February of the year 2017. The words of which I speak? They are entirely about DOS. Yes—that DOS. The one that powered so many computers throughout ...

Back when I had to prep outgoing computers on their way to surplus, I would DBAN their hard drives and install FreeDOS so the surplus office could prove the PC could boot. I love FreeDOS and think ...

After years of work, version 1.0 of FreeDOS is now available for download from the project team’s Web site. The operating system can be installed on a PC and used to run DOS programs. It can also be ...