A blast from the past - source code released
From
The Official Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to public
On Tuesday, we dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows. With the help of the Computer History Museum, we are making this code available to the public for the first time.
The museum has done an excellent job of curating some of the most significant historical software programs in computing history. As part of this ongoing project, the museum will make available two of the most widely used software programs of the 1980�s, MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, to help future generations of technologists better understand the roots of personal computing.
Links here (
MS-DOS1.1 and 2.0) and here (
W4W1.1a)
Busy today but I have downloaded both and will spend the next couple weeks going through the code. MS-DOS 1.1 is 296K of well commented assembly code in six files. Fun stuff!
Posted by DaveH at March 25, 2014 3:06 PM