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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The FreeDOS Project has just reached its 23rd birthday! This is a major milestone for any free software or open-source software project. If you don't know about FreeDOS, it's a small project that ...

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 ...

On June 29, 2019, the FreeDOS Project turns 25 years old. That's a major milestone for any open-source software project! In honor of this anniversary, Jim Hall shares this look at how FreeDOS got ...

It’s been more than two decades since Microsoft started to move away from MS-DOS with the launch of Windows 95. But a generation of computers users grew up with DOS in the 80s and 90s and there are ...

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 ...

It’s been decades since Microsoft stopped developing MS-DOS, but there are thousands of old DOS applications that aren’t designed to run on newer operating systems like Windows 10. Enter FreeDOS, a ...