Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary
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hackthemack
2 hours ago
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I, perhaps, owe my career to DOS. As a kid, everyone relied on me to get their games, soundcard, and disk drives to work. Juggling IRQs HIMEM and CHKDSK. Soundblaster 16 forever!
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mixmastamyk
38 minutes ago
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Yep, I once made a good living getting drivers into high memory and making those menus in config.sys. Installing network drivers and Netware client. People were quite happy to see me when I arrived.

For some reason I thought DOS had already been opened.

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LeFantome
3 minutes ago
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They have open sourced a few versions of DOS, including 4.0 I believe. This is just the latest.

For me, DOS 5.0 was the best. Would love to see that.

And of course we have both FreeDOS and SvarDOS now.

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bonesss
4 minutes ago
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Everything I ever needed to know about IT, I learned installing Warcraft 2 on DOS
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ChrisArchitect
24 minutes ago
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tnelsond4
1 hour ago
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Now someone turn this into a new templeos distro.
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