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 ...

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

Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the ...
BGR

The Nostalgic Software That Made Microsoft Huge Is Now Open Source For Anyone To Use

Microsoft has published the earliest-discovered version of the DOS operating system on an open-source GitHub repo. This comes after MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.x were open-sourced in 2018 and the source for ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Open Sources Earliest DOS Code on Anniversary

Microsoft on Tuesday released the earliest known DOS source code materials found to date to mark the 45th anniversary of 86-DOS 1.00. The new software preservation effort announced on the Microsoft ...
PC World

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

Microsoft open-sourced 86-DOS 1.00 source code on GitHub for its 45th anniversary, according to PCWorld, including kernel and PC-DOS development snapshots. This historically significant software, ...
Ars Technica

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

I always thought it stood for Disk Operating System. I was fucking around with it back in the early 80's after I got out of the Navy, and had taken some BASIC courses. I wrote a program to find out ...