Hackernews posts about MS-DOS

MS-DOS is an early operating system developed by Microsoft for personal computers, first released in 1981 and widely used throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

1. Grand MS-DOS Gaming General MIDI Showdown (blog.johnnovak.net)
   97 points by ibobev 11 days ago | 21 comments
2. Balance of Power Geopolitics in the Nuclear Age (1985) (archive.org)
   2 points by Levitating 22 days ago | discuss
3. The Cheapest Antivirus Protection (miod.online.fr)
   1 points by zdw 17 days ago | discuss
4. What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
   310 points by rbanffy over 1 year ago | 169 comments
5. OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (www.flyingpenguin.com)
   307 points by feigewalnuss 5 months ago | 333 comments
6. Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
   136 points by zinekeller over 1 year ago | 53 comments
7. MS-DOS development resources (github.com)
   126 points by mariuz about 1 year ago | 42 comments
8. Q2DOS – Quake 2 backported to MS-DOS (dk.toastednet.org)
   119 points by jsheard over 1 year ago | 79 comments
9. Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS (pascal.hansotten.com)
   115 points by rbanffy about 1 month ago | 51 comments
10. The Road to MS-DOS 2.0 (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    109 points by whobre about 1 month ago | 58 comments
11. Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (blisscast.wordpress.com)
    89 points by keepamovin 5 months ago | 75 comments
12. CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment (github.com)
    54 points by elvis70 4 months ago | 18 comments
13. MS-DOS game copy protection and cracks (www.dosdays.co.uk)
    52 points by fooqux 8 months ago | 4 comments
14. What MS-DOS Can Do That Linux Can't (webarchive.me)
    50 points by wizardforhire over 1 year ago | 69 comments
15. MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 still run train dashboards at German railway (Jan'24) (www.tomshardware.com)
    49 points by wojtczyk over 1 year ago | 14 comments
16. SPF/PC v4 for MS-DOS, FreeDOS, x86 (github.com)
    22 points by hggh 6 months ago | 4 comments
17. Show HN: Watch random code typed out on an MS-DOS IDE (hackerman.specr.net)
    17 points by vunderba 2 months ago | 8 comments
18. The mysterious MS-DOS reboot (2021) (www.edn.com)
    17 points by geox 10 months ago | 2 comments
19. How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    16 points by paulmooreparks 7 months ago | discuss
20. Remembering MS-DOS 5.0 (arstechnica.com)
    14 points by whobre over 1 year ago | 1 comments
21. How Much of CP/M's Design Ended Up in MS‑DOS? (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
    13 points by ingve 8 months ago | 9 comments
22. What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (2007) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    11 points by TMWNN over 1 year ago | 2 comments
23. How to present MS-DOS screenshots (30fps.net)
    7 points by ibobev almost 2 years ago | 1 comments
24. Microsoft Releases Classic MS-DOS Editor for Linux (arstechnica.com)
    7 points by SeenNotHeard over 1 year ago | discuss
25. Ask HN: Best Way to Build MS-DOS-Style Text UI in the Browser?
    6 points by 3stripe over 1 year ago | 6 comments
26. What Was the Role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (2007) (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    6 points by rbanffy over 1 year ago | discuss
27. Exploring Visual Basic 1.0 for MS-DOS (www.cloudwisp.com)
    5 points by cybersoyuz 9 months ago | discuss
28. Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    5 points by LorenDB over 1 year ago | discuss
29. A Practical MS‑DOS Problem Contributed to C++ (freshsources.com)
    4 points by pjmlp 4 months ago | discuss
30. MS-DOS 3.10 source code for sale on eBay (www.ebay.com)
    4 points by qingcharles about 1 year ago | discuss
31. Programming "Hello, World" in MS-DOS (github.com)
    4 points by AlexeyBrin over 1 year ago | discuss
32. Show HN: A faithful offline recreation of the classic MS-DOS Editor (pascar.run)
    3 points by mysticmode 5 months ago | 1 comments
33. Executor 2.0 for MS-DOS (archive.org)
    3 points by jmward01 over 1 year ago | 1 comments