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Offline ben321

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I just found that Microsoft publicly released the source code for old DOS!
« on: February 21, 2023, 05:31:18 AM »
For DOS versions 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft has publicly released both the compiled binaries (COM and EXE files), as well as the source code, on their official Github account. You can download them here.
https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
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Offline debs3759

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Re: I just found that Microsoft publicly released the source code for old DOS!
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2023, 07:11:12 PM »
That's good to know, thanks
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Offline fredericopissarra

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Re: I just found that Microsoft publicly released the source code for old DOS!
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2023, 01:05:31 AM »
5 years ago...
The question is: Why M$ never released MS-DOS 6 or Windows 3.1 sources? (and never will!)
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Offline ben321

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Re: I just found that Microsoft publicly released the source code for old DOS!
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2024, 08:35:03 PM »
Quote from: fredericopissarra on February 22, 2023, 01:05:31 AM
5 years ago...
The question is: Why M$ never released MS-DOS 6 or Windows 3.1 sources? (and never will!)

Just checked that GitHub again and found they now have DOS 4.0 and DOS 4.0-ozzie (I don't know what the ozzie version even is). They seemed to skip all of DOS 3.x versions though.
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