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Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s

In the era of floppy disks and early operating systems like CP/M and MS-DOS, A: and B: were reserved for floppy disk drives, ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
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DOSXBox is an emulator port for XBox360 which emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS.

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. DOSXBox is an emulator which emulates an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS. It is intended ...
TechRadar

Floppy disks live on - Linux drivers get first update for years, perhaps signalling a comeback for the much-loved system?

Floppy disks, long dismissed as obsolete relics of the past, have unexpectedly returned to the Linux development spotlight. For the first time in nearly three years, a new patch has been submitted to ...