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Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS 1.0, offering a rare look at PC history (www.xda-developers.com)
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[-] lazylemons@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I keep seeing this today but wasn't this done a number of years ago?

Edit: Different versions of DOS (1.25, 4.0 and a couple other versions) was indeed open sourced a number of years ago. But 1.0 was just open sourced a few hours ago which is very cool. So I was right and wrong.

this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2026
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