MS-DOS is open source now

[bitbouillion]

http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-early-source-code/

[DubFX]

http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-early-source-code/

It's on-time finnaly.

[Lethn]

If they open sourced Windows XP then I'd be very happy but I doubt that will never happen.

[Warning__3]

Wow, this is really cool to be honest! i wonder if people will start to make custom versions for newer hardware and such

[IIOII]

Wow, this is really cool to be honest! i wonder if people will start to make custom versions for newer hardware and such

Yes it is cool indeed. However could have been earlier.

There already exists Freedos. Of course that's not 100% MS-DOS but close enough for most applications.

[Tonka Branded Truck]

If they open sourced Windows XP then I'd be very happy but I doubt that will never happen.

I'm waiting for this too. 

[Hexah]

If they open sourced Windows XP then I'd be very happy but I doubt that will never happen.

I'm waiting for this too. 

It's going to be a long time wait I think. WinXP was a very successful product and it was successful not a long time ago. It took 40 years for them to open up a MS-DOS. Going down this path we will have to wait another 30 years for the WinXP

[EternalWingsofGod]

http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-early-source-code/

Perhaps someday Windows XP will be released open source but not for some time yet
We just got through the 1980s 1990s stuff still this is really neat

This part was really cool thank Tim for living long enough to keep a copy
But I didn’t have the source to the earlier version 1.1, and neither, apparently, did Microsoft. Just as I was finishing the first draft of this article, I received it directly from the author, Tim Paterson! We are grateful to Tim for sending it, and to Roy for quickly getting the additional permission needed to release it as well.

Now heres the strange part you think Tim should be really old since were talking about MS-DOS but he is only 56
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson

I downloaded it was like Wait 868kb that can't be right then thought oh my  computing has really moved forward we haveprograms super large in comparison to those days lol.

[ning]

Thanks for sharing it. I didn't expect to come across this on a Bitcoin forum.

[Truecoin]

Has anybody already tried to compile it?

[counter]

If they open sourced Windows XP then I'd be very happy but I doubt that will never happen.

That would be rather good news but I won't be holding my breath for that to happen.

[Remember remember the 5th of November]

If they open sourced Windows XP then I'd be very happy but I doubt that will never happen.

I'm waiting for this too. 

You're gonna have to wait another 20-30 years.

[crazy987]

Has anybody already tried to compile it?

Not yet, but going to 

[Truecoin]

Hidden jokes found from code: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/26/5549208/microsoft-early-code-contains-hidden-jokes

[crazy987]

Hidden jokes found from code: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/26/5549208/microsoft-early-code-contains-hidden-jokes

And there goes the coffee

'… because we're gods' #Microsoft #Word #source pic.twitter.com/1SkKmjqvKP

[EternalWingsofGod]

Hidden jokes found from code: http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/26/5549208/microsoft-early-code-contains-hidden-jokes

dumb user is using a Novell Network!

People going whats a Novell network and haha when coders rage at a PC coding its universal
Also using the original hack word as in bypass not as in breaking into stuff nice

Badfart Process (What a HACK!)

If you want to break into the badfart hack and not bypass it be my guest  

[dotcom]

http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-early-source-code/

Bit late ain't it?

[keithcpaulk]

We get source code for windows xp in 2034

[rohnearner]

We get source code for windows xp in 2034

they already shutdown the support for XP but i don't think they will every disclose the source course of worlds most popular OS of all time..!

[Taras]

Is Windows 1.01 open source?