Why DOS Was (and Is) a Thing - FreeDOS
Historical talk starting from Unix, going through CPM, DOS 1.x, DOS 2.x, DOS 3.x, DOS 4.x, DOS 6.x, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and ending with FreeDOS.
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FreeDOS freedos.org
An open source DOS-compatible operating system for playing classic DOS games, running legacy business software, or developing embedded systems. Any program that works on MS-DOS should also run on FreeDOS.
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DOS Executables Explained - Nostalgia Nerd youtube.com
Video about DOS executable formats including .COM, .BAT and .EXE.
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MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! We Build and Run it! - Dave's Garage youtube.com
Former Microsoft employee David Plummer tells stories about development of MS-DOS and compiles MS-DOS 4.00 source code which has been open-sourced by Microsoft.
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The Life of MS-DOS by Brendan Byers b13rg.github.io
History of the DOS family including CP/M, Q-DOS/86-DOS, MS-DOS and PC-DOS. Article also includes a diagram of the timeline and family tree of DOS operating systems.
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Part 1 digitalmars.com
Part 2 - API documentation of functions for interfacing with the DOS operating system itself.
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Programming MS-DOS with Power - DOS Programming, Undocumented DOS, and DOS Secrets web.archive.org
System programming tutorials like disk handling, interrupts, inputs, sound, graphics.
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