igor_kavinski
Lifer
Birth of 86-DOS
Events and ideas that led to development of the MS-DOS predecessor
nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com
Quick and Dirty: The story of 86-DOS & MS-DOS
How a Seattle computer company made the DOS that would become MS-DOS.
lunduke.substack.com
86-DOS Revisited | OS/2 Museum
The first URL has some interesting details that I haven't read anywhere else. Seems Seattle Computer Products were the ones who contacted Microsoft first for their 8086 "PC". And obviously Microsoft screwed them over by buying their OS for only $50,000 and went on to make billions just selling MSDOS.
I started with MSDOS 5.0 and the last I used was MSDOS 6.2 but very briefly as Windows 95 got released and then no one cared about MSDOS and Windows 3.1 anymore.
