If you’re familiar with MS-DOS at all, you’ll recall that it’s a command-driven operating system that performs functions issued at the C:> prompt. The only way to get an MS-DOS computer to do something was to type a command at this prompt and if you can imagine, it was a rather cumbersome way to use a computer .
As an example, to load up Microsoft’s simple editing program, you had to type the name of the drive that the program was on, the directory that the program was in, and then the name of the program. So if Microsoft Edit was in a directory or folder named “Process,” you could start the program by typing, “C:>processedit.com” Then, and only then would the program load up for use.
This is a small command, but just imagine if you had a program that was deeply nested within a series of folder. You could end up typing a command as wide as your computer screen or worse, long enough that the entire command would have to wrap onto the next line! Now imagine having to type these long commands every time that you wanted to start a program. Yikes!
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Canadian software powerhouse Corel swallowed up WordPerfect a few years ago to make it the centerpiece of a suite to compete with Microsoft's market-owning |
An outgrowth of MS-DOS, Microsoft announced Windows in 1983 and finally released it on November 20 1985.
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But no one could have predicted that would be the case when Windows 1.0 launched 25 years ago as a graphical front end for MS-DOS.
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Microsoft's contact to write MS-DOS was probably the single most important event in turning the small company of the late 70s into the massive behemoth it |
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The app, which made headlines last week for its Microsoft DOS emulation capabilities, was pulled down after less than a day of being on the store. |
Ok, this is old but I just found out that you can perform a DoS attack against a regex. 
"DOS is a great tool, but with Windows it will be even better! That's why we're making Windows a part of DOS." -Microsoft ca. 1994
I liked a @ video Презентация Microsoft DOS 4.01 в СССР (1990 год), Билл Ге
Microsoft DOS/NT (doesn't) provide the means to WIN!