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Why DOS is still a thing

Source: https://youtu.be/3E5Hog5OnIM

40 frigging years later and DOS is still a thing. Don’t believe it? You better do. Microsofts MS-DOS and IBM’s PC-DOS were actually released in 1981. But they have by far not been the only incarnations of this little operating system.

Jim Hall a member of the FreeDOS project just published a video in which he answers a lot of questions like: Where did DOS come from? Why does it look the way it does? And who is still using it today.

Check it out, quite an interesting one.

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