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  • MS-DOS 4.0 open-sourced

    From David Goodwin@21:1/101 to All on Mon Apr 29 08:51:39 2024
    In case anyone who reads this newsgroup has somehow missed it, Microsoft
    has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT license
    including binaries of the tools required to build it. Some parts of Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 are also included - the rest of it will follow
    if it can be found.

    https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to David Goodwin on Mon Apr 29 10:49:30 2024
    Re: MS-DOS 4.0 open-sourced
    By: David Goodwin to All on Mon Apr 29 2024 08:51 am

    In case anyone who reads this newsgroup has somehow missed it, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT license including binaries of the tools required to build it. Some parts of Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 are also included - the rest of it will follow if it can be found.

    https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

    I've heard MS-DOS 4.0 was fairly buggy and people avoided using it.. It may still be interesting to look at the source code though.

    Nightfox
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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Nightfox on Tue Apr 30 10:55:00 2024
    I've heard MS-DOS 4.0 was fairly buggy and people avoided using it.. It may still be interesting to look at the source code though.

    Never heard about bugs although I wouldn't be surprised. Story here was it
    had a larger memory footprint without any significant for the time advantage over 3.3

    Spec


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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to David Goodwin on Mon Apr 29 20:21:25 2024
    In case anyone who reads this newsgroup has somehow missed it, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT license including binaries of the tools required to build it. Some parts of Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 are also included - the rest of it will follow
    if it can be found.

    https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

    I compiled it in FreeDOS - glad MS released the code, its really nice to p0ke around the early bits of computing that sucked me in...

    It's up @ 2oFB for the rest of eternity. Yay!



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  • From mary4@21:1/166 to David Goodwin on Sun May 5 00:24:50 2024
    In case anyone who reads this newsgroup has somehow missed it, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT license including binaries of the tools required to build it. Some parts of Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 are also included - the rest of it will follow
    if it can be found.

    https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

    BASED! :D i has the code as soon as it came out! i need to figure out how to compile it xD

    --mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

    ... A PC a day keeps the Apple away!

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