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Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. PC-DOS 1.00 would lead to Microsoft becoming computing's top dog Microsoft continues to embrace open source. The source code and annotations ...
XDA Developers

Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS 1.0, offering a rare look at PC history

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup, and earlier in his ...
PC World

Microsoft open-sources 86-DOS 1.00, the ancestor of Windows

Microsoft just released the source code for 86-DOS 1.00, made available as an open-source project on GitHub. The release marks the 45th anniversary of 86-DOS 1.00, created by Tim Paterson, which would ...
techtarget

MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System)

What is MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System)? MS-DOS stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System and is also known as Microsoft DOS. MS-DOS was the Microsoft-marketed version of the first operating ...
Hackaday

Microsoft Updates MS-DOS GitHub Repo To 4.0

We’re not 100% sure which phase of Microsoft’s “Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish” gameplan this represents, but just yesterday the Redmond software giant decided to grace us with the source code for MS ...
ZDNet

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 – and it’s so much more than the code

Before “Micro Soft” became Microsoft, Bill Gates wrote BASIC interpreters. Microsoft’s first shipping operating system was a Unix distro called Xenix. Then, in 1980, Microsoft got its shot at the big ...