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Celebrating 30 years of MS-DOS

C:\happy-birthday.exe! MS-DOS, the cornerstone of Microsoft's software empire, is 30 years old today--so let's boot into the command line for a celebration of the OS with the mostest.

On this day in 1981, Microsoft bought what was to become MS-DOS from Seattle Computer Products. SCP has developed the system under the name QDOS. Everybody knows MS-DOS stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System, but that's actually a neat bit of corporate whitewashing from Bill Gates and co.--QDOS originally stood for Quick and Dirty Operating System.

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Pulled DOS emulator lives on as a jailbroken app

If you weren't one of the 6,551 users who grabbed a copy of iOS app iDOS before it got pulled from the App Store, you're in luck. It will continue to be developed and offered through third-party application store Cydia.

The app, which made headlines last week for its Microsoft DOS emulation capabilities, was pulled down after less than a day of being on the store. Among other things, it could run DOS games and a full-blown version of Windows 3.1. People even got Windows 95 to boot on it, though it was completely unusable.

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