Feel nostalgic? You can still relive some of the operating systems of old. Enjoy these classic operating systems in your ...

Even if you’re not a long-time Linux user, the terminal is still great as a way to quickly jump around your system settings ...

Initial versions of Windows worked with an earlier Microsoft operating system called MS-DOS, providing a modern graphical interface on top of DOS's traditional text-based commands.

In July 1993, Microsoft released Windows NT, a more robust operating system built from scratch. It was meant as a complement to Windows 3.1 and allowed higher-end machines to perform more complex ...

The Archimedes ran RISC OS, a very nice graphical operating system written explicitly for the ARM architecture. RISC OS is now available for the Raspberry Pi , finally bridging the gap between ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. A traditional operating system (OS) such as Windows, macOS and Linux facilitates user ...

An operating system is the essential software that's needed to run your computer's suite of software. Everything from video games to web browsing, basic word processing, and more is down thanks to ...

You probably never saw the NES as a productivity machine, but some clever developers beg to differ. Hackaday and Ars Technica note Inkbox Software has released a graphical operating system, NESOS ...

With the help of the operating system’s graphical user interface (GUI), one may interact with their computer and use applications like word processors, web browsers and games.

First, graphical operating systems were rare when the NES launched in 1986. The two predominant computer interfaces were MS-DOS on the PC and ProDOS on the Apple IIc, both prompt-based systems.