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Microsoft Releases MSDOS 2 and WFW 1 Sources

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday March 26 2014, @03:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the 640k-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.

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)

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Reziac on Wednesday March 26 2014, @11:02PM

    by Reziac (2489) on Wednesday March 26 2014, @11:02PM (#21888) Homepage

    I cheer your philosophy, and wish there was more of it. I've often said that programmers should be constrained to work on the slowest system their program will run on at ALL, so they can feel the pain they inflict on others, rather than doing this "junk fills the space allotted" thing that seems to be the norm nowadays. Where's their pride in making stuff compact and efficient??

    I'm not a programmer, but I take an interest. I have Pascal source (given me by the coder) for an old program I use a lot, and even tho there's not a single comment in it, I can pretty much follow what most of it does, because it makes sense in context. Part of this is due to logical names for everything.

    BTW, I can't find a copy of it now, but the source for Vern Buerg's LIST v6.0 was released as public domain.

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