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Before cloud backup and multi-terabyte desktop storage, there was a brief moment in history when disk space was precious. I know I…
![The MS-DOS disk management revelation: Partition Magic](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/5eea50f3-0b9f-49f8-b2a6-6b1241027299.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Back in college when I was studying operating systems and the architecture of the first computer processors, we were having fun by creating…
![Viruses and anti-viruses in the MS-DOS era](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/a7f2e1cd-309b-453d-a0bf-5d94283717f5.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
86Box can emulate the 8088 and WinWorld has the first version of DESQView so I might just try it. As for how they did it...I wouldn't know.
We went through the early and clunky days of multitasking in MS-DOS, but the tools provided natively by Microsoft and shipped on the…
![More MS-DOS multitasking: DESQView and QEMM](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/82665f77-e913-4b13-9bfa-a7a473f18be8.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Previously, we spent a little time talking about bulletin boards and how people used to chat, write, and share information on these…
![Re-enacting the dial-up connection with MS-DOS](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/4cfa0d23-3fbe-4b48-ac47-00bf305242d9.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
We will quickly go through two tools today, or more precisely two versions of the same tool used to gather information about the current…
![System information on MS-DOS: CheckIt](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/a7eaee53-84dd-45c9-a098-9a176a293af8.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
We went through a few business applications for MS-DOS, like the famous AutoCAD for industrial design and News for publishing. Today we…
![Databases and data applications in MS-DOS: FoxPro](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/3a95b1ff-d463-4858-9b55-930e78bbb2fd.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
We already explored many topics such as curious graphical editors, various file managers creating a genre reaching well into Windows era…
![MS-DOS applications: PC Globe 5](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/44a16218-1517-460b-8696-cd7c13ca4c0a.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
After writing in the past about TCP/IP for MS-DOS, I kept feeling like there was something left unsaid. Of course, we all know that there…
![Browsing the web with MS-DOS](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/c55aea76-0706-43a4-a3bf-b06778037db7.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I remember buying a computer magazine one day, it had to be around the year 2000, 2002 maybe. I was an avid computer magazine reader back…
![The other operating system: BeOS 5 Personal Edition](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/4abc4d2b-8d2b-4dc0-86b4-9b223ea65c81.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Since we explored quite a few older MS-DOS applications so far, including text-mode file managers, editors, archiving tools and even design…
![Writing code for MS-DOS with Borland Pascal 7](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/a276f999-c6ee-4f11-b142-343f92a038f0.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Feeling that I am getting all theoretical and idealistic lately, I thought to bring you something different today: another fine MS-DOS era…
![MS-DOS applications: AutoCAD](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/d7af9c67-3dbb-45ff-b1d8-334b35353cc0.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Taking a look at one of the first versions of AutoCAD, the application that started a new industry.
We will talk today about another forgotten MS-DOS application, available since MS-DOS 6.22: MemMaker. As the name suggests, it was an…
![MS-DOS applications: MemMaker](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/8d26192d-d8c0-4a8c-a50c-fb53c1e7fb92.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
You probably have no idea how bad the storage space situation around the nineties was, right when the personal computer became a thing…
![MS-DOS applications: DriveSpace](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/d6eecd38-483e-469e-8248-33b33036f921.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
We showed a few MS-DOS applications before, showcasing text-mode file managers, command prompt history, archivers, text editors and banner…
![Let’s get TCP working with MS-DOS](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/d74365f0-33d3-42b0-9681-f8f7f0735f11.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Ever wanted to have Internet access in MS-DOS? Let's see how to get it done!
We rarely stop to appreciate the Internet, the ubiquitous connection that makes computers talk to each other. And not just talk, but follow…
![Re-enacting the direct cable connection](https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/af309659-9d0c-451b-b44c-3e3bc05fe0c1.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
An example on how computer networking and file sharing was done in MS-DOS times.