dencorso Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Computer History Museum Makes Historic MS-DOS and Word for Windows Source Code Available to the Public! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZortMcGort11 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) ^That stuff is older than I amSo, like, in 85 years, if we're lucky, we'll get the Windows 9x source code. Maybe 100 years for XP :-) Edited March 26, 2014 by LostInSpace2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZortMcGort11 Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) They made a mistake with the release date of T2... it came out in 1991, not 1992. That was a day I fondly remember from my childhood. Saw it with my neighbor at Sehome 3 Cinemas. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1992 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day Edited March 26, 2014 by LostInSpace2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew T. Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I think this means hell hath frozen over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 Yeah... I guess so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) DOS 1.1? DOS 2.0?Wouldn't you have to do massive mods to it? AFAICR, it has some hard-coded HDD for the "ancient" disk access, correct? (I had an IBM 5150 at one time.) Also, limited the FDD size.Guessing that at least the code could be used to get an idea of how MS envisioned the OS.Edit - Ehhh, downloaded and "looked" at it. Edited March 26, 2014 by submix8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 Edit - Ehhh, downloaded and "looked" at it. What did you expect? It's interesting, nonetheless.But hardly useful, or else it would have remained undisclosed, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RacerBG Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 If you ask me - this is a progress. Source for Win 3.11 or DOS 3.x+ could be useful at some point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TmEE Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 A friend of mine has looked at the DOS source with his friend and most of it is pretty direct ripoff of CP/M LOL. Labels, structure, and a whole lot of stuff match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bphlpt Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Yeah. That's pretty much how MS/BG worked back in the day.Cheers and Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dencorso Posted April 4, 2014 Author Share Posted April 4, 2014 One could say MS-DOS 1.00 was white-box reverse-eng'ed from CP/M-86.I'm not saying it, because it's not easy to be positive about it at all, for one that wasn't at all involved in the development process.Anyway, there's no way of denying compatibility to CP/M was one of the main development directives.Then again, other parts, like the FAT filesystem, are clearly superior to their CP/M counterparts.It never aimed to be a CP/M clone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamTron Posted April 10, 2014 Share Posted April 10, 2014 So... I guess this means that MS-DOS is now open source!Releasing the source code for something just doesn't seem like Microsoft, but I guess it's got no practical value other than educational purposes. Interesting, to say the least! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CamTron Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 C:\Users\CamTron\Downloads\Word 1.1a CHM Distribution>findstr /n /i /s "fuck" *Opus\asm\wordgrep.asm:1171:; BP is used as always, the other registers are free to fuck with.Opus\asm\wordgrep.asm:1201: je another_fucking_out_of_range_jumpOpus\asm\wordgrep.asm:1204:another_fucking_out_of_range_jump:Yep! Of course, Microsoft does it too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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