Tag: MS-DOS Source Code
As we know, now Microsoft loves open-source software. Regardless of the motives Microsoft has, the giant software company unquestionably played an important part in the personal computer history, since the initial release of the BASIC interpreter made for the Altari 8800. To be fair, Microsoft has been very helpful in the effort to preserve this history of personal computing for…
We all know that deep, really deep inside your fancy Windows 10 there is still a function call do_msdos() but what we may not know is how it actually all started. To help to close that gap, Rem’s Classic Computer website has a new article telling the history of MS-DOS (and IBM PC-DOS, for that matter). There are plenty of information about…
I confess I don’t remember PC-MOS/386, but every time a vintage software has its source code released, I get excited. It is a way to learn new (old) techniques and at the same time, make sure the source code is preserved forever. PC-MOS was a multi-user MS-DOS system released in 1987 by The Software Link. The expected setup was to…
