This semi-portable PC/XT model sports a 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU, 640 kB of RAM and a CGA video card with a built-in monochrome monitor. An NE2000 ISA network card, running in 8-bit mode, enables the ...

I t was 1989, and I was obsessed with the Mac. Apple's portable, 9-inch-screen computer was an exciting graphical leap, and I wanted to use it for everything. But I wasn't using it. Instead, I ...

In addition, Yeo targeted a computer with very limited processing power: a 1984 IBM 5155 Portable PC, which includes an Intel 8088 4.77 MHz CPU, 640KB conventional memory, CGA ISA graphics, and MS ...

Microsoft earlier today, in collaboration with IBM, announced that it is open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code. The company has explained what was special about it and how to run it.

In many ways, the Microsoft empire was built on MS-DOS. The company got its start selling tools for programmers, but its big break came in 1980 when it licensed MS-DOS to IBM for use in the ...

Microsoft, in conjunction with the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, has released the source code for MS-DOS 1.1, MS-DOS 2.0, and Word for Windows 1.1a. These programs are probably the ...

I've been covering Microsoft, DOS, and Windows since the 1980s, ... Apple's portable, 9-inch-screen computer was an exciting graphical leap, and I wanted to use it for everything.