Microsoft and IBM have released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0

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Some news from a few days ago that we would like to share with you: Microsoft, in collaboration with IBM, has released the source code of MS-DOS 4.0. The code is therefore now available on GitHub (and where else since it's owned by Microsoft?).

We know that it is not news of particular relevance especially within this site but it still seems interesting to us to share it source code since we always talk about applications Open source.

Microsoft and IBM have released the source code of MS-DOS 4.0

One of the fun parts are the various pieces of code found by people around, for example on X, where there are let's say bizarre comments such as:

; fuckin' sixteen-bit machine ought

DOSHIT

HACK! HACK! HACK!

Since we know that many of the people who follow us have often grown up with MS-DOS, it can be a nice experience to navigate within the source code released!

MS-DOS v.1.25 and v2.0 were already released atComputer History Museum” on March 25, 2014 but were republished in this Repositories where we also find the one released in recent days which concerns MS-DOS v.4.0.

The source code they were all released with MIT license it is therefore possible to fork the project and make changes to it, on the other hand Only 38 years have passed since the launch of MS-DOS 4.0!

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