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”

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this decade. Just two years ago, the earliest known version of 86-DOS was ...
TechSpot

Microsoft releases the earliest DOS source code ever discovered as open source

Editor's take: Microsoft continues to tightly control the release of some of its most important pieces of legacy software. While enthusiasts and programmers are eager to see newer versions of MS-DOS ...
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, ...