Category Archives: PC history

Happy 30th Birthday!

Posted on August 13, 2011 by Michal Necasek

In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of the IBM Personal Computer, the OS/2 museum started a new series of articles, this time dealing with the history of DOS—the predecessor of OS/2 and the first OS developed by Microsoft in cooperation … Continue reading →

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Windows/386 2.01

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Michal Necasek

The OS/2 museum recently obtained a boxed copy of the original Microsoft Windows/386. That is, version 2.01 of Windows/386 from September 1987. Windows/386 was Microsoft’s first product utilizing the 386 hardware in the DOS world. Microsoft was involved in the … Continue reading →

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DOS Memory, Managers & Extenders, Part I

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Michal Necasek

To understand why the maddeningly complex world of DOS memory managers and extenders came to be, it’s necessary to understand the evolution of the PC platform. Even though memory managers and DOS extenders reached their peak on 32-bit 386 and … Continue reading →

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Researching the history of PC computing

Posted on June 2, 2011 by Michal Necasek

Finding out what happened in the world of PC computing 20 or 25 years ago isn’t always easy. The 1980s were over before the Internet took off, which means that most of the information was never publicly available in electronic … Continue reading →

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