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The Rise of DOS: How Microsoft Got the IBM PC OS Contract The reason Microsoft became so big comes down to the best deal ever made in the history of computing, between the fledgling software company ...

That screenshot seems to be MS-DOS 5.0 or later. How many end users had hard drives when 4.0 was released? Click to expand... We had a 20MB hard drive in a PC-XT clone made by Sanyo which was running ...

On Sunday, Singapore-based retrocomputing enthusiast Yeo Kheng Meng released a ChatGPT client for MS-DOS that can run on a 4.77 MHz IBM PC from 1981, providing a unique way to converse with the ...

OpenAI's interactive AI ChatGPT is an AI that responds with natural sentences similar to humans just by entering text. Engineer Yeo Kheng Meng reported that he developed a client for DOS using this ...

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...

It's not every day that you stumble on a website powered by hardware that pre-dates the dial-up modem era of the internet, but that's exactly what's happening over at Brutmans Lab. It's a site ...

IBM PCThe characters that appear on the BIOS screen of the BIOS screen let me feel excellent design with a dot feeling that gives us somewhere calm after seeing it for over 30 years. Font pack packed ...

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Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the IBM PC is how Microsoft ended up with the contract for the operating system, which would eventually make Microsoft's MS-DOS the standard and set the stage ...