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Friday, March 28, 2014

After more than 30 years .. Microsoft gave away MS-DOS source code

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After more than 30 years .. Microsoft gave away MS-DOS source code

After more than three decades of its launch , the History Museum Computer in collaboration with Microsoft Corporation. to launch the source code of MS-DOS system which was released in the eighties of the last century and designed to work on IBM devices in that time, Microsoft released two versions of the MS-DOS source code, one of version 1.1, and the two of version 2.0, the funny thing is that their size, as compressed together is only 800 KB.

Microsoft has also gave away Word 1.1 source code to which was released in 1989 , the source code is about 7 MB in size and mostly written in the language C , but there are parts written Assembly.

word_for_windows_1.1

Microsoft Word , the one which is released in 1989 , occupied more than 90 % of the use of the editors in that time.

word processor market share

To download the MS-DOS source code, click here.
To download the Microsoft Word source code, click here.

     
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