That may make it interpret it differently. Also you can try to install DOS 6.22 before installing Windows and I think it used to allow you to choose in the startup menu whether you wanted to go into ...

Buried deep within Windows’ bosom is a carbon-crusted fossil from the ancient days of computing. This aged wart on Windows’ soul harkens back to a more primitive time, when computers lacked the oomph ...

Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...

I have an ancient laptop from the 1990s -- A Compaq Lite 4/33c which traveled with me to the ends of the Earth. The machine is running MS-DOS / Windows 3.1 and has the following hard drive: Seagate ...

Last week was the 25th anniversary of the biggest and most critical launch in computing history. Steve Jobs was on a forced hiatus after being fired from Apple, and that platform wasn’t doing well. OS ...

What just happened? Happy Birthday to Windows 95, Microsoft's first, extremely successful foray into the world of 32-bit consumer operating systems. The company released the original retail edition of ...