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. MS-DOS and Windows 3.11 still run train dashboards at German railway (Jan'24) (www.tomshardware.com)
   49 points by wojtczyk 29 days ago | 14 comments
2. Remembering MS-DOS 5.0 (arstechnica.com)
   14 points by whobre 23 days ago | 1 comments
3. Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0 (arstechnica.com)
   3 points by rbanffy 18 days ago | discuss
4. The Incredible Machine 2 (1994) (archive.org)
   1 points by coloneltcb 27 days ago | discuss
5. MS Teams channels cannot contain MS-DOS device names (learn.microsoft.com)
   444 points by tapoxi over 1 year ago | 350 comments
6. MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-source (2014) (github.com)
   207 points by theycallhermax over 1 year ago | 102 comments
7. Hosting a Public Website on MS-DOS (2022) (fsturmat.net)
   207 points by udev4096 about 1 year ago | 52 comments
8. Thirty Years Ago: MS-DOS 6.00 (www.pcjs.org)
   189 points by ingve over 1 year ago | 108 comments
9. Did the Windows 95 setup team forget that MS-DOS can do graphics? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
   136 points by zinekeller 2 months ago | 53 comments
10. Q2DOS – Quake 2 backported to MS-DOS (dk.toastednet.org)
    119 points by jsheard 2 months ago | 79 comments
11. Bad Apple as MS-DOS Escape Sequences (16colo.rs)
    92 points by andy_herbert over 1 year ago | 12 comments
12. A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS (www.theregister.com)
    85 points by LinuxBender about 1 year ago | 75 comments
13. Video playback on low-end MS-DOS machines (scalibq.wordpress.com)
    78 points by zdw over 1 year ago | 33 comments
14. Building MS-DOS 4.00 on FreeDOS [video] (www.youtube.com)
    73 points by zdw 12 months ago | 15 comments
15. Computer Archeology: Exploring the Anatomy of an MS-DOS Virus (www.metacodes.pro)
    36 points by metacodes 9 months ago | 4 comments
16. AliExpress laptop with Intel 8088 CPU will take you back to the MS-DOS era (arstechnica.com)
    24 points by erickhill almost 2 years ago | 3 comments
17. A 23-byte "hello, world" program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS (github.com)
    15 points by thunderbong about 1 year ago | 4 comments
18. DOStodon, the MS-DOS Mastodon Client (github.com)
    15 points by blakespot about 1 year ago | 2 comments
19. Open sourcing MS-DOS 4.0 (cloudblogs.microsoft.com)
    15 points by tosh about 1 year ago | discuss
20. Creating New Installation Media for MS-DOS 4.0 (fabulous.systems)
    12 points by felsqualle 10 months ago | discuss
21. 86-DOS version 0.1-C found and archived – all 9 files of the oldest known MS-DOS (www.theregister.com)
    10 points by lproven over 1 year ago | discuss
22. MS-DOS Memory Management on x86 [video] (www.youtube.com)
    10 points by TylerJaacks over 1 year ago | discuss
23. Software Library: MS-DOS Games (archive.org)
    9 points by Jugurtha 10 months ago | 5 comments
24. What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
    8 points by segasaturn 8 months ago | 2 comments
25. Nokolisp – Lisp interpreter and compiler from 1977-1988 for MSDOS (timonoko.github.io)
    8 points by capableweb over 1 year ago | 1 comments
26. Weird AliExpress laptop with Intel 8088 CPU will take you back to the MS-DOS era (arstechnica.com)
    8 points by mikece almost 2 years ago | discuss
27. How to present MS-DOS screenshots (30fps.net)
    7 points by ibobev 5 months ago | 1 comments
28. DOStodon MS-DOS Mastodon Client (github.com)
    7 points by Bluestein 8 months ago | discuss
29. Oldest-known version of MS-DOS's predecessor has been discovered and uploaded (arstechnica.com)
    7 points by mfiguiere over 1 year ago | discuss
30. Ask HN: Best Way to Build MS-DOS-Style Text UI in the Browser?
    6 points by 3stripe about 1 month ago | 6 comments
31. MS-DOS 4.0 Source Code Fails to Compile (lunduke.locals.com)
    6 points by kryster about 1 year ago | 3 comments
32. Show HN: MSDOS Theme Inspired Image Enhancement Tool (msdosimagetools.ngrok.dev)
    6 points by mr_o47 over 1 year ago | 3 comments
33. Long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection (www.popsci.com)
    6 points by thunderbong over 1 year ago | discuss
34. MS-DOS 4.0 Source Code Fails to Compile (lunduke.locals.com)
    5 points by lineofduty about 1 year ago | 7 comments