Microsoft has released the code to MS-DOS 4.00 on GitHub; Dave takes you a tour of the code, builds it, and runs it on original hardware. For my book on lif...
DOS wasn’t a very complex OS and has already been reverse engineered more or less completely. Apps like DosBox already exist. It might cause a couple of minor revelations if/when the source is finally opened but I doubt it will have a big impact.
They trickle out versions over the years. This time they published version 4. The versions up to 6.22 (standalone) and up to 97-8 (part of Windows 9x-ME) are yet to be published.
What are the consequences of this
Like does this mean they could develop an app where you just have a library with all those nostalgic legacy games
DOS wasn’t a very complex OS and has already been reverse engineered more or less completely. Apps like DosBox already exist. It might cause a couple of minor revelations if/when the source is finally opened but I doubt it will have a big impact.
Isn’t the whole post about it being opened? It’s released: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
They trickle out versions over the years. This time they published version 4. The versions up to 6.22 (standalone) and
up to 97-8 (part of Windows 9x-ME) are yet to be published.Weren’t versions for 95/98 7.0 and then for ME 8.0?
You’re right. I’ll correct it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#MS-DOS_7/8_(as_part_of_Windows_9x)
Very little. Older versions had already been open-sourced previously. This is specifically version 4.0, and the last version released was 8.0.
Technically correct, but 7 and 8 were part of Windows 9x.
The last standalone version was 6.22