Microsoft Shares MS-DOS Source Code for First Time Ever

Early tech fans might remember the good 'ol days of Microsoft MS-DOS, the company's first operating system from the 1980s. Now, with the help of the Computer History Museum, Microsoft is making the source code for DOS available to the public for the first time ever. Get excited, hackers.

The Computer History Museum, based in Mountain View, Calif., is making MS DOS 1.1, 2.0 and Word 1.1a available to help fans and technologists better understand the history of computing.

See also: Technostalgia: 20 Misty Memories of Personal Computing

Microsoft announced the move in a blog post on its website and detailed the early beginnings of the iconic software. Read more...

More about Microsoft, Developers, Word, Ms Dos, and Computer History



via Mashable http://ift.tt/1gz0h7v