@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoMicrosoft releases MS-DOS 4 source code on GitHub — 45 year old code now open-sourcewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1123
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minus-squaremozzlinkfedilink24•1 year agoBut not 5.0 yet - they still got critical proprietary stuff in EDIT and SMARTDRV.SYS that they don’t want their competitors to get a hold of.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•1 year agoAccording to people who are way more interested in this than I am, there was a bunch of licensed software in 5 and 6.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoI wonder if they licensed the source of 5.0+ to someone and are still getting paid for it. If so, it’s probably something ubiquitous and critical that nobody would think of like traffic lights or water treatment plants.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•1 year agoI think that is likely since 3.3 wasn’t included either and that is one of those versions people stuck with for ages.
But not 5.0 yet - they still got critical proprietary stuff in EDIT and SMARTDRV.SYS that they don’t want their competitors to get a hold of.
According to people who are way more interested in this than I am, there was a bunch of licensed software in 5 and 6.
I wonder if they licensed the source of 5.0+ to someone and are still getting paid for it. If so, it’s probably something ubiquitous and critical that nobody would think of like traffic lights or water treatment plants.
I think that is likely since 3.3 wasn’t included either and that is one of those versions people stuck with for ages.