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Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows

#1 Post by Squashman » 23 Apr 2014 11:49

As part of this ongoing project, the museum will make available two of the most widely used software programs of the 1980’s, MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, to help future generations of technologists better understand the roots of personal computing.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_bl ... ublic.aspx

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#2 Post by penpen » 23 Apr 2014 15:36

Nice find :D .

According to the comments in these sources, at least one programmer had fun:
EXEC.ASM wrote:; must contain 4D5A (yay zibo!)

; can we get the space?
; nope... cry and sob
; save him for a rainy day

; did we read the right number?
; yep... continue
; exactly the wrong number... no memory
; no starto, chumo!

; zibo arises!

; WOMP!
; Wham!


These sources answered the question: "Why [] are considered as special characters ?" (http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33992#p33992)
In short - since MS-DOS 2.0 internaly some ANSI escape sequences are used for some kind of signaling: For example ESC"[K" for erase line.

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Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind

#3 Post by Squashman » 23 Apr 2014 16:52

Would have been nice if they released all of the latest versions of DOS and maybe even Windows 3.11.

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Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind

#4 Post by Liviu » 24 Apr 2014 21:31

penpen wrote:These sources answered the question: "Why [] are considered as special characters ?" (http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33992#p33992)
In short - since MS-DOS 2.0 internaly some ANSI escape sequences are used for some kind of signaling: For example ESC"[K" for erase line.
Fascinating. It's 30+ years since MS-DOS 2.0. Makes one wonder how much _other_ dead code must be lugging along.

Squashman wrote:Would have been nice if they released all of the latest versions of DOS and maybe even Windows 3.11.
Maybe, someday, even NT 3.1. Would make the perfect companion to the great book that was the first edition of Inside Windows NT.

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Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind

#5 Post by tcpman » 05 May 2014 12:19

i was seraching for ms-dos today and i find the source code of it in computerhistory
to bad is asm
but i dont know why they release ver 2???

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Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind

#6 Post by penpen » 05 May 2014 12:51

Yes, they released version 2, too.
It is in the same ".zip" file in subfolder "v20source" (assembler sources, too).

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Edit: Somehow i've overseen the "why" in the post above; sorry for that.
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Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind

#7 Post by tcpman » 05 May 2014 13:41

yes they release ver 1 and 2
but the last version was 6 (or 7 (some of pepole say the ms dos for win 98 ))
i wonder why they didn't release the last version

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