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Improving the Command Line Experience in MS-DOS

Although MS-DOS is often considered a very limited environment compared to modern shells like Bash or Zsh, the latest versions of the system have incorporated tools that have significantly improved the user experience. Here's how to get the most out of them.
Pablo Toledo Computers, Operating Systems, MS-Dos 2026-06-07

Error in MS-Dos does not detect disk change

On my old IBM PS/1, since I bought it I had encountered a tedious problem, it was not able to detect a floppy disk change, at first I thought it was a problem with the floppy disk drive, I performed maintenance on it and thought it had worked, then it failed again, I tried to change the drive for others and the problem persisted. Here I tell you about this strange behavior and how it was solved.
Pablo Toledo Computers, Operating Systems, MS-Dos 2022-03-16
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