Before Microsoft released MS-DOS, there was 86-DOS. Now version 0.1 is online thanks to a hobbyist’s archival work. By Andrew Paul Published Jan 5, 2024 2:13 PM EST Add Popular Science (opens in a new ...

The Tandy 1000, among other contemporary computers and consoles of the 1980s, used the Texas Instruments SN76489 for its sound and musical output. This venerable sound chip can now be used on ...

I grew up with DOS, our first computer was an IBM PCJr with 256KB RAM. Dad bought a Gateway 2000 386 in 1990 and then left for contract work, leaving then ~14yo me to do any troubleshooting. That PC ...

A shattering new form of the “denial-of-service” computer attack could be on the rise, according to a company that controls some of the internet’s core infrastructure. In a conventional DoS attack, ...

The PC-104 is essentially an Intel 486 processor with lots of support for standards that have long since disappeared from most computers, but this makes it great for two reasons. First, it can control ...

At 50 years old, denial-of-service and distributed DoS attacks are well known -- yet they continue to wreak havoc on organizations of all industries and sizes. Malicious actors use these ...

Building a complete operating system by compiling its source code is not something for the faint-hearted; a modern Linux or BSD distribution contains thousands of packages with millions of lines of ...

A blog post by programmer Nemanja Trifunovic, The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M, is on the face of it an interesting little excursion into the late delivery of a long-forgotten bit of software – one ...

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his ...

João has been covering the tech world for over 7 years, with a heavy focus on laptops and the Windows ecosystem. I also love all things tech and videogames, especially Nintendo, which he's always ...

You can now play classic DOS games on your Mac in your browser, thanks to the online service DOS_deck. Here's how to use it. At the dawn of the personal computer era ...