Editor’s note: After this article was published, Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that cmd.exe will not be going away after all. Read Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ follow-up column. My very first ...

MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an OS for x86-based personal computers. After having been the head OS for IBM PC-compatible computers in the 1980s, it was gradually replaced by operating ...

The Command Prompt or Console has been one of the best tools ever. It was built before GUIs and is way more flexible and usable. There are a few things that can only be performed from the console and ...