MS releases vintage DOS source code

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Not directly relevant to us as DOS got outsourced to dosbox but here it
is nevertheless:
http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-2-0-source-code/

If they keep releasing the source roughly 30 years after the OS hit the
market, then Windows 3.11 is still 10 years out.

bye
    michael

[Steven Edwards]

The more interesting thing is the MS Word for Windows 2.x. It would be
amusing if someone did a 32bit port as a winelib app.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
> Not directly relevant to us as DOS got outsourced to dosbox but here it
> is nevertheless:
> http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-2-0-source-code/
>
> If they keep releasing the source roughly 30 years after the OS hit the
> market, then Windows 3.11 is still 10 years out.
>
> bye
>         michael

[Vassilis Virvilis]

word 2.x was a 16bit program. Word 6.x was also 16bit. Word95 was the 
first 32bit AFAIK.

Somehow I doubt a port to 32bit would be trivial...

On 03/27/14 21:25, Steven Edwards wrote:
> The more interesting thing is the MS Word for Windows 2.x. It would be
> amusing if someone did a 32bit port as a winelib app.
>
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Michael Stefaniuc <[e-mail]
> > wrote:
> Not directly relevant to us as DOS got outsourced to dosbox but here it
> is nevertheless:
> http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-2-0-source-code/
>
> If they keep releasing the source roughly 30 years after the OS hit the
> market, then Windows 3.11 is still 10 years out.
>
> bye
>          michael
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Steven Edwards
>
> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that
> is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo