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DK. C·Jul 17, 2025Open Source when DiedDISCLAIMER: This article objective is to spark ideas and conversations.
Radu Zaharia·Feb 11, 2024More MS-DOS multitasking: DESQView and QEMMWe went through the early and clunky days of multitasking in MS-DOS, but the tools provided natively by Microsoft and shipped on the…
Radu Zaharia·Jan 27, 2024System information on MS-DOS: CheckItWe will quickly go through two tools today, or more precisely two versions of the same tool used to gather information about the current…
Radu Zaharia·Dec 3, 2023MS-DOS applications: PC Globe 5We already explored many topics such as curious graphical editors, various file managers creating a genre reaching well into Windows era…A response icon2A response icon2
Radu Zaharia·Nov 17, 2023The other operating system: BeOS 5 Personal EditionI 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…A response icon10A response icon10
Adam Fisher / fisher king (@therightstuff)·Jul 29, 2023Flashback: American McGee’s AliceStill kicking, 23 years later!
Radu Zaharia·Jun 27, 2023Re-enacting the direct cable connectionWe rarely stop to appreciate the Internet, the ubiquitous connection that makes computers talk to each other. And not just talk, but follow…
Radu Zaharia·Jun 20, 2023MS-DOS applications: archiversThe dawn of personal computing was not lavish but bound and constrained by heavy resource limitations. CPU power was measured in megahertz…
Radu Zaharia·Jun 19, 2023The MS-DOS 6.22 supplemental diskAround Windows 95 era, Microsoft was quite keen on “plus” packages and supplemental disks. Windows 95 had a Windows 95 plus pack including…
