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i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced!

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MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced!

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i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! We Build and Run it!
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Microsoft has released the code to MS-DOS 4.00 on GitHub; Dave takes you a tour of the code, builds it, and runs it on original hardware. For my book on lif...
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    It might cause a couple of minor revelations if/when the source is finally opened

    Isn’t the whole post about it being opened? It’s released: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

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      They trickle out versions over the years. This time they published version 4. The versions up to 6.22 (standalone) and up to 9 7-8 (part of Windows 9x-ME) are yet to be published.

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        Weren’t versions for 95/98 7.0 and then for ME 8.0?

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          You’re right. I’ll correct it.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#MS-DOS_7/8_(as_part_of_Windows_9x)

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