InfoQ

Microsoft and IBM Release MS-DOS 4.0’s Source Code under the MIT License

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TechSpot

Microsoft brings the MS-DOS text editor back from the dead, sort of

Editor's take: Back in the DOS days, real PC users wrote their textual tomes in the official MS-DOS Editor – I certainly did. These days, developers offer a confusing array of text editors, so ...

Microsoft open-sources 86-DOS 1.00, the ancestor of Windows

The source code for 86-DOS 1.00, the OS that eventually became MS-DOS and Windows, is now available on GitHub.

Windows 11 can still run the PC games you grew up with. Here’s how

Who doesn’t remember PC games such as Maniac Mansion, the King’s Quest series and the dubious adventures of Leisure Suit ...
Ars Technica

Creating a Windows 95 / DOS 6.22 boot menu...

I don't exactly know where my old Windows 95 CD is - I got this 486 pretty much complete from an Arsian out of the Agora, and it came with 95 on one HD, and I put in a 2nd with DOS 6.22.<BR><BR>Still, ...
Neowin

Perhaps the earliest ancestor of Microsoft DOS and Windows just arrived on the Internet

The earliest known version of 86-DOS, which is basically the great grandfather of Microsoft DOS has arrived on the internet, thanks to a tech enthusiast who has uploaded the version to the Archive.

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code ...