misk@sopuli.xyz to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 months agoMicrosoft releases MS-DOS 4 source code on GitHub — 45 year old code now open-sourcewww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down13
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minus-squaremozz@mbin.grits.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·2 months agoBut not 5.0 yet - they still got critical proprietary stuff in EDIT and SMARTDRV.SYS that they don’t want their competitors to get a hold of.
minus-squareIonicFrog@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 months agoI wonder if they licensed the source of 5.0+ to someone and are still getting paid for it. If so, it’s probably something ubiquitous and critical that nobody would think of like traffic lights or water treatment plants.
minus-squareCatTrickery@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoI think that is likely since 3.3 wasn’t included either and that is one of those versions people stuck with for ages.
minus-squarexyzzy@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoAccording to people who are way more interested in this than I am, there was a bunch of licensed software in 5 and 6.
But not 5.0 yet - they still got critical proprietary stuff in EDIT and SMARTDRV.SYS that they don’t want their competitors to get a hold of.
I wonder if they licensed the source of 5.0+ to someone and are still getting paid for it. If so, it’s probably something ubiquitous and critical that nobody would think of like traffic lights or water treatment plants.
I think that is likely since 3.3 wasn’t included either and that is one of those versions people stuck with for ages.
According to people who are way more interested in this than I am, there was a bunch of licensed software in 5 and 6.