To get the answer, just put a decimal point in the number "50"—my first Microsoft product was MS-DOS 5.0.

A story about an obsolete PC, an old library book, and a one version of MS-DOS.

Even though we were up to Windows 3.0 by now, most of our coverage was devoted to DOS and the applications you ran on it.

Still, of course, even modest hardware today is exponentially more potent than what the original generations of DOS users had to tolerate. The main two components are the AMD Ryzen 5 7600 CPU and ...

MS-DOS 5.0 arrived soon after I started, and while I think its main innovation was support for 3.5-inch floppies, it was still a big deal. Two years later, Microsoft would deliver MS-DOS 6 ...