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

Microsoft has released the 86-DOS 1.00 source code, including its kernel, PC-DOS snapshots and utilities. Includes handwritten notes from 86-DOS creator Tim Paterson with timelines, feature context, ...
PC World

Microsoft publishes MS-DOS, Word for Windows source code

Microsoft arguably built its business on MS-DOS, and on Tuesday the software giant and the Mountain View, CA-based Computer History Museum took the unprecedented step of publishing the source code for ...
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 ...
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 ...
BetaNews

Microsoft re-open-sources early versions of MS-DOS on GitHub

Back in 2014, Microsoft gave the source code for MS-DOS 1.25 and MS-DOS 2.0 to the Computer History Museum. Now -- in a move it describes as "re-open-sourcing" -- the company has pushed the code to ...
gizmodo

You Can Now Download the Original Source Code for MS-DOS for Free

Microsoft has dusted off the source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows—some of the most popular and widely used software of the 80s—making it freely available to download from the the Computer ...
thenextweb.com

Microsoft and Computer History Museum release source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0, Word for Windows 1.1a

Microsoft today released the source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a. With the help of the Computer History Museum, the move means means this code is now ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft releases source code for MS-DOS and Word

In recognition of their historical importance and commercial irrelevance, Microsoft has given the source code to MS-DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a to the Computer History Museum (CHM) in ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft releases historic MS-DOS and Word source code to the public

Microsoft, in conjunction with the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, has released the source code for MS-DOS 1.1, MS-DOS 2.0, and Word for Windows 1.1a. These programs are probably the three ...
Neowin

Microsoft releases source code to MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a

Microsoft has announced it has released the source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Word for Windows 1.1a to the public as part of a project with the Computer History Museum. In this age of touchscreen ...
ExtremeTech

Microsoft releases historic MS-DOS and Word source code to the public

Microsoft, in conjunction with the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, has released the source code for MS-DOS 1.1, MS-DOS 2.0, and Word for Windows 1.1a. These programs are probably the three ...