Microsoft Releases MS-DOS Source Code on GitHub

Microsoft today announced that the MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 source code is available on GitHub, giving devs the chance to easily explore the early days of operating systems.

This is the second time the company rolls out the MS-DOS source code, after back in March 2014, Microsoft open-sourced the OS via the Computer History Museum.

However, this time Microsoft uses GitHub, the service that it purchased earlier this year, and which according to the software giant itself, should provide interested devs with a series of benefits, including easy access for existing GitHub users.

“Today, we're re-open-sourcing MS-DOS on GitHub. Why? Because it's much easier to find, read, and refer to MS-DOS source files if they're in a GitHub repo than in the original downloadable compressed archive file,” Microsoft’s Rich Turner explains.

Sama files as the 2014 version

The files published on GitHub are thus the same with ... (read more)

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