Twenty years ago this week, as Microsoft announced that it would end support for the MS-DOS operating system, James Hall announced to the world that he intended to create a public domain version of the OS in order to keep the universe of character-based DOS software alive. This story originally ran on July 3, 2014, and it appears unchanged below. Now 27 years after Microsoft announced that it would end support for the MS-DOS, we're resurfacing this exercise (and very much appreciating our present day options as we all work from home a bit more). Back in 2014, Ars' Editor Emeritus Sean Gallagher decided to celebrate the 20th anniversary of MS-DOS's end-of-life by working in the operating system within a modern context. As such, we're resurfacing a few classics from the Ars archives, including this somewhat masochistic experiment. Update, July 5, 2021: It's the July 4 holiday weekend in the US, which means Ars staff gets a well-deserved holiday to catch up on this summer's Steam sale (or maybe just to rest).
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