Microsoft Open-Sources MS-DOS 4.0 Under MIT License
([Microsoft] 6 Hours Ago
MS-DOS 4.0 Open-Source)
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- News link: https://www.phoronix.com/news/MS-DOS-4.0-Open-Source
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After publishing [1]open-source versions of MS-DOS years ago for versions 1.25 and 2.0, Microsoft and IBM have now announced that MS-DOS 4.0 has been open-sourced under an MIT license.
MS-DOS 4.0 is now open-source and available on GitHub. This open-sourcing of MS-DOS 4.00 is primarily done for historical purposes. The MS-DOS 4.0 code can be tested on modern PCs with the likes of the PCem and 86box emulators.
More details for those interested via the [2]Microsoft Open-Source Blog . The MS-DOS source code can be pulled from [3]GitHub .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-MS-DOS-GitHub
[2] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/
[3] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
MS-DOS 4.0 is now open-source and available on GitHub. This open-sourcing of MS-DOS 4.00 is primarily done for historical purposes. The MS-DOS 4.0 code can be tested on modern PCs with the likes of the PCem and 86box emulators.
More details for those interested via the [2]Microsoft Open-Source Blog . The MS-DOS source code can be pulled from [3]GitHub .
[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-MS-DOS-GitHub
[2] https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/
[3] https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
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