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 ...

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

The software that helped build Microsoft into what it is today has been open-sourced on GitHub. The release marks 45 years ...

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 makes 86-DOS 1.00 open source on its 45th birthday

History painstakingly preserved.
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What is MS-DOS: Computers Reshaped by Simple OS

As the forerunner to the graphical user interfaces in Microsoft’s Windows platform, MS-DOS helped set the stage for the company’s dominance in the PC software market. When MS-DOS was released in 1981, ...
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Evolution of Microsoft operating systems: from MS-DOS to Windows 11

Without Microsoft, the world of modern computer technology would not be the same as we know it. Next year, Microsoft turns 50 years old, so it’s worth looking back at the megacorporation’s significant ...
TechSpot

DR-DOS is coming back from the dead, rebuilt from scratch in pure assembly

Halcyon DOS Days: Back in the command prompt days, DR-DOS was one of the main competitors to MS-DOS in the operating system market. Those days are long gone, but a mysterious developer is reviving the ...