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Source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows goes online

Microsoft has the most popular operating system in the world, granted a lot of people hate it. If you look back at the history of the computer world, Microsoft has been around almost as long as the PC ...

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this ...

Microsoft open-sources 86-DOS 1.00, the ancestor of Windows

Microsoft just released the source code for 86-DOS 1.00, made available as an open-source project on GitHub. The release ...
Liliputing

Microsoft releases MS-DOS source code to GitHub

Four years after working with the Computer History Museum to release the source code for MS-DOS, Microsoft is “re-open-sourcing” its command line operating system from the ’80s. This time the company ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in garage

Microsoft VP confirms transcribed document “is perfect and recompiles byte for byte to the original binaries.” ...

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code ...
Neowin

Microsoft releases source code to MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a

Microsoft has announced it has released the source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a to the public as part of a project with the Computer History Museum. In this age of touchscreen ...
Engadget

Microsoft makes MS-DOS and Word for Windows source code public

Microsoft believes the children are our future, and to prove it, it's teamed up with the Computer History Museum to make source code available for two groundbreaking programs: MS-DOS and Word for ...
GeekWire

Microsoft reveals source code for MS-DOS and early Word

Ever wonder what made MS-DOS tick? Soon, interested geeks will be able to root around inside the original source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0, as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1, as a part of a ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft and IBM release source code for one of the weirdest versions of MS-DOS

That screenshot seems to be MS-DOS 5.0 or later. How many end users had hard drives when 4.0 was released? Click to expand... We had a 20MB hard drive in a PC-XT clone made by Sanyo which was running ...
Neowin

Microsoft explains how you can run MS-DOS 4.00 that it officially open sourced today0 0

Microsoft earlier today, in collaboration with IBM, announced that it is open-sourcing the MS-DOS 4.00 source code. The company has explained what was special about it and how to run it. Recently, we ...
USA Today

Microsoft releases source code for early MS-DOS, Word for Windows

SAN FRANCISCO — Nostalgic for MS-DOS, anyone? How about 'early 90s-vintage Word? Microsoft on Tuesday "dusted off" the source code for early versions of the iconic MS-DOS operating system and ...