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The little-known winstart.bat batch file (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-15 | by Raymond Chen | tags: winstart.bat, autoexec.bat, virtual machine manager

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Turbo Pascal on CP/M, MSX-DOS and MS-DOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: pascal, msx-dos, niklaus wirth

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WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-06-27 | get Vintage Word Processor Software → | tags: wordstar, robert j. sawyer, ms-dos

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CP/M-86 & MS-DOS Cross Development Environment (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | get MS-DOS Emulator for PC → | tags: cpm-z80, ms-dos, aztec-c

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Multicore suppport for DOS is real – partly (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-31 | by Native Smp Dos Like Os Using Dos Code | get DOSBox Emulator → | tags: ms dos, multicore support, os development

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Childhood Computing (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Kids Coding Starter Kit → | tags: ibm, ms-dos, logo

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Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date” (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Microsoft MS-DOS Source Code → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, 86-dos

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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-24 | get Microsoft MS-DOS Source Code Kit → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, 86-dos

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What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-20 | by Raymond Chen | get Memory Management Debugging Tool → | tags: ms-dos, error code 7, error_arena_trashed

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Ars Asks: Share your shell and show us your tricked-out terminals! (arstechnica.com)

2026-05-06 | get USB Type-C Hub → | tags: bash, windows, ms-dos

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How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-05 | by Raymond Chen | get Hexadecimal Editor Software → | tags: windows, binary mode, ms-dos

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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-02 | by Raymond Chen | tags: ms-dos, environment variables, cp/m

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Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date" (arstechnica.com)

2026-04-30 | get Microsoft MS-DOS Source Code Kit → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, 86-dos

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Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code (zdnet.com)

2026-04-28 | by Steven Vaughan-Nichols | get Microsoft DOS 1.0 Book → | tags: ms-dos, microsoft, xenix

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Only one side will be the true successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by View All Posts Blisscast | get Windows 2.x Software Bundle → | tags: ms-dos, windows 2.0, ibm

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Only One Side Will Be the True Successor to MS-DOS – Windows 2.x (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-25 | by View All Posts Blisscast | get Windows 2.x Software Bundle → | tags: ms-dos, windows 2.0, ibm

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OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-20 | by Davi Ottenheimer | get MS-DOS Emulator for PC → | tags: ms-dos, wal-mart, ncr

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Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-17 | get DOSBox Emulator Software → | tags: dosbox, ms-dos emulator, qemu

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SPF/PC v4 for MS-DOS, FreeDOS, x86 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-05 | get MS-DOS Emulator Software → | tags: spf/pc, ms-dos, freedos

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'Every Microsoft engineer got a stopwatch,' says Windows veteran reminiscing about company's past focus on speed — asserts that 'everything' was timed to ensure acceptable performance in the 1980s (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-04 | by Mark Tyson | get Microsoft Stopwatch Collection → | tags: microsoft, windows, ms-dos

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The Official DR DOS Website (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-15 | get DR DOS Software Bundle → | tags: dr dos, digital research, gary kildall

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Durdraw – ANSI art editor for Unix-like systems (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-09 | get Unix Editor → | tags: ansi art editor, unix like systems, utf-8 terminals