MS Open Sources MS-DOS 4.0

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MS Open Sources MS-DOS 4.0

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After publishing open-source versions of MS-DOS years ago for versions 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft and IBM have now announced that MS-DOS 4.0 has been open-sourced under an MIT license.

MS-DOS 4.0 is now open-source and available on GitHub. This open-sourcing of MS-DOS 4.00 is primarily done for historical purposes. The MS-DOS 4.0 code can be tested on modern PCs with the likes of the PCem and 86box emulators.

More details for those interested via the Microsoft Open-Source Blog. The MS-DOS source code can be pulled from GitHub.
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Kind of like a rich guy offering us a stale expired food item from the back of his refrigerator :D
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Re: MS Open Sources MS-DOS 4.0

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Yeah, for those interested in reinventing the flat tire. That's bullshit, fuck off Microsoft. They wouldn't open source anything you could use that might have a hope in Hell of being ported to modern hardware for firmware flashing etc. (but we already have open DOS implementations for that).
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