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How the OS/2 Flop Went On To Shape Modern Software

Slashdot 06 Jan 2025
But the real question is why this Microsoft-IBM collaboration on a DOS-replacing operating system ultimately lost out to Windows...?. If OS/2 1.0 had been an 80386 OS, and had been able to multitask DOS apps, we think it would have been a big hit....
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How a Retrocomputing Enthusiast Got a 30-Year-Old Clamshell Computer Online

Slashdot 29 Dec 2024
Introduced in 1991, Hewlett-Packard's (DOS-based) HP 95LX Palmtop PC — a collaboration with Lotus — was finally discontinued back in 2003 ... "Conveniently, the HP 95 [Palmtop PC] uses the ...
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What is the ‘Curse of Ra’ copypasta and the memes about it?

The Daily Dot 05 Dec 2024
Meme basics.. Meme Creator. Unknown. Meme Type. Reaction. First Appearance. March 2015. Origin Source ... The curse, specifically attributed to the sun god Ra, first appeared in pop culture in an eponymous Dos PC game produced by Rainbow Arts in 1990 ... .
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Hobbyist Builds a Modern System That Still Runs MS-DOS

Slashdot 06 Oct 2024
He's the long-time Slashdot reader who installed Linux on a 1993 PC — and then installed a 1994 version of MS-DOS on a modern Thinkpad X13 ... The fact that a 30-year-old MS-DOS 6.22 can still work ...
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This ITX motherboard plays DOS games on native hardware

PC World 01 Oct 2024
It’s never been easier to get classic games running on your PC, but “easier” is a relative term when it comes to one specific category of classic games. Some titles made in the DOS era (that’s the ...
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DOS's Last Stand? On a Modern Thinkpad X13 with an Intel 10th-Gen Core CPU

Slashdot 19 Aug 2024
Slashdot reader yeokm1 is the Singapore-based embedded security researcher whose side projects include installing Linux on a 1993 PC and building a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS ... How about DOS?.
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Paul Allen's Estate Auction Includes Vintage Apple-1, CP/M and DOS-Powered Computers

Slashdot 17 Aug 2024
Kildall's CP/M was adapted for IMSAI in 1975 and inspired the "CP/M work-alike" Quick And Dirty Operating System (QDOS) that Microsoft purchased in 1981, ported to the new IBM PC as MS-DOS, and licensed to IBM, who in turn offered it as PC-DOS...
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Classic PC game emulation is back on the iPhone with iDOS 3 release

Ars Technica 13 Aug 2024
/ The start of any journey in MS-DOS ... But when iDOS developer Chaoji Li and other purveyors of classic PC emulator software attempted to do the same for old PC games for MS-DOS and other non-console computing platforms, they were stymied.
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A few weeks with the Pocket 386, an early-‘90s-style, half-busted retro PC

Ars Technica 02 Aug 2024
The Book 8088 was a neat experiment, but as a clone of the original IBM PC, it was pretty limited in what it could do. Early MS-DOS apps and games worked fine, and the very first Windows versions ran… technically.
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The best NES games of all time

Digital Trends 28 Jul 2024
PC DOS, Commodore C64/128, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Family Computer Disk System, Arcade ... Wii, PC DOS, Commodore C64/128, Amiga, Nintendo Entertainment System ...
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WEDNESDAY, July 24, 2024

Korea Times 23 Jul 2024
1704-Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain. 1870-First trans-U.S. rail service begins ... 1987-IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released ... the solar system. .
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Interview: Embedding better accessibility in software and websites

Computer Weekly 22 Jul 2024
When he started using PCs in 1991, at the age of 12, Gokyigit used a program called JAWS (Job Access With Speech), a screen reader for the MS->DOS operating system. However, since the PC’s operating ...
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Why 1994’s Lair of Squid was the weirdest pack-in game of all time

Ars Technica 09 Jul 2024
(credit. Aurich Lawson / HP) ... the HP 200LX pocket-size PC. In the depths of the device, among the MS->DOS productivity apps built into its fixed memory, there lurked a first-person maze game called Lair of Squid ... Read 28 remaining paragraphs .
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Christie's Likens Microsoft's Work On MS-DOS To Einstein's Work In Physics

Slashdot 06 Jul 2024
PC Magazine's The Rise of DOS. How Microsoft Got the IBM PC OS Contract notes that Paul Allen himself traced the genesis of MS-DOS back to a phone call Allen made to Seattle Computer Products owner Rod ...

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