Microsoft open sources DOS

[maflynn]

Definitely on the cool side, and its good that MS saw the value in releasing this to Open Source.

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

Today’s source release is so old that it predates the MS-DOS branding, and it includes “sources to the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel, several development snapshots of the PC-DOS 1.00 kernel, and some well-known utilities such as CHKDSK,” write Microsoft’s Stacey Haffner and Scott Hanselman in their co-authored post about the release.

 

[dmr727]

I was just reading about that on Ars. Pretty cool stuff!