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Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary

61 pointsby hackthemacktoday at 2:52 AM15 commentsview on HN

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hackthemacktoday at 3:04 AM

I, perhaps, owe my career to DOS. As a kid, everyone relied on me to get their games, soundcard, and disk drives to work. Juggling IRQs HIMEM and CHKDSK. Soundblaster 16 forever!

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Panzerschrektoday at 5:49 AM

It's surprise for me that there are still non-opensourced MS-DOS versions. Why keeping them closed?

And I see no reason not to opensource early Windows versions (up to 2000).

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klipkloptoday at 7:42 AM

The world needs 6.22 open sourced.

tnelsond4today at 4:18 AM

Now someone turn this into a new templeos distro.

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