Lagg and Uncle_Al both wrote in about this surprising source release.
Lagg writes:
Today a technet article was posted by a Microsoft employee announcing that they are releasing to the Computer History Museum and the public at large the source code to v1.1 and 2.0 of MS-DOS as well as v1.1a of Word. All obvious jokes aside this could be good for projects such as DOSBox. Note also that said employee considers 300kb to be small for source code. Seems rather large to me, even now. But in any case this will be an interesting thing to dig into. To save the trouble of link chasing here are the relevant links:
Computer history article for MS-DOS (direct link to source)
Computer history article for Word (direct link to source)
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Wednesday March 26 2014, @10:52PM
I collect WordPerfect stuff, and have a hardcopy of the book. The tale kinda makes a WP user want to whup WPCorp's management upside their collective head. :(
WordDOS was decent enough as of v5.5, and quite nice as of v6. It wasn't in WPDOS's league (nothing was), but WordDOS was sure as hell less irritating than WordScar and MultiMate.
WPWin has been both very good, and very frustrating because of when it's NOT good. WinWord has been more consistent, but to a WP user, it's always frustrating. :/