So, in June 1985, IBM and Microsoft signed a long-term Joint Development Agreement (JDA) in which the two firms agreed to create a new operating system, based on MS-DOS/PC-DOS, that could better ...

While IBM’s engineer John Backus created FORTRAN as a critical early programming language in what IBM says was the “programmable” era, the company says its idea for the cognitive computing ...

MS-DOS posed a particularly challenging platform for a ChatGPT client, lacking native networking abilities. In addition, Yeo targeted a computer with very limited processing power: a 1984 IBM 5155 ...

Assembly language was my second programming language after BASIC. I learned BASIC while in 6th grade on an IBM PC XT that booted DOS 3.3 (on a 5.25in floppy) and had GW-BASIC on a another floppy disk.

The software has already been tested on authentic hardware from the same period (the 1983 IBM PC XT), as well as on a newer Intel Pentium and by using emulators such as PCem and 86box. MS-DOS 4.00 is ...

“Book 8088” retro laptop promises a real-deal MS-DOS experience. ... Intel's 8088 was a cut-down version of the original 8086 with an 8-bit data bus; in the Book 8088 and the IBM PC, ...

Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the IBM PC is how Microsoft ended up with the contract for the operating system, which would eventually make Microsoft's MS-DOS the standard and set the ...