I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

I keep getting the following error when trying to flash my bios:<P>"Can not flash bios is memory managers (HIMEM) present."<P>I created my boot disk from xp by right ...

I’m trying to rebuild an ancient ‘screensaver’ art exhibit for a client. I’ve encountered legacy hardware and software limitations in that the .exe needed to run is coded for 16bit DOS, and there is ...

Like the old-fangled BIOS (which is slowly being phased out with the help of EFI), the DOS operating system is a piece of computing history that refuses to be only history. While most folks will never ...