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Microsoft released the source code for MS-DOS versions 1.25 and 2.0 through the Computer History Museum in March 2014. This was also intended as a historical document summarizing 'how MS-DOS was born.

TL;DR: Microsoft will likely never release the original source code of Windows into the wild, but the company is clearly interested in sharing important episodes of its software development history.

The company worked with IBM to release a 1998 uncompiled version DOS 4.0 on Thursday, although unfortunately, this release lacks the app-switching capabilities that landed it the nickname MT-DOS.

Recently, we have been covering quite a lot of retro stuff for Windows which shows how modern apps have their roots in the '90s. If you are a fan of the bygone era of Windows, you are likely to be ...

A decade after releasing the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and MS-DOS 2.0, Microsoft has open sourced a (slightly) more recent operating system: MS-DOS 4.0. First released in 1988, you can now download ...

Se trata de un repositorio que ya está disponible para su descarga, uso y modificación a través de GitHub. Los detalles. Microsoft se asoció con IBM para publicar oficialmente el código fuente de la ...

30 years ago today, Microsoft bought the rights to the Quick and Dirty OS, re-branded it as MS-DOS, struck a deal with IBM, and made history. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

A decade after releasing the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and MS-DOS 2.0, Microsoft has open sourced a (slightly) more recent operating system: MS-DOS 4.0. First released in 1988, you can now download ...

Microsoft and IBM’s DOS operating system is an important milestone in the history of personal computing, and it’s just as important that we can dig into it and see what makes it tick. That’s part of ...

Microsoft se ha asociado con IBM para publicar oficialmente el código fuente de la versión de MS-DOS 4.0 bajo la licencia otorgada por el Insituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts (MIT), un repositorio ...