整理 | 屠敏出品 | CSDN（ID：CSDNnews）当一个系统彻底退出历史舞台，它的命运通常只有两个：被遗忘，或者被封存。但微软选了第三条路——把它开源出来。如今恰逢 86-DOS 1.00 诞生 45 周年，微软最新宣布：把目前已发现的最早 DOS ...

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

微软在其开源博客宣布，在 86-DOS 1.00 诞生 45 周年之际，公开了 "迄今发现的最早 DOS 源码"—— 由 DOS 之父 Tim Paterson 保存的原始 86-DOS 1.00 汇编清单，以及 PC-DOS 1.00 ...

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this decade. Just two years ago, the earliest known version of 86-DOS was ...

DOS, Microsoft is releasing the earliest known source code listings – transcribed from yellowed continuous printouts.

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Editor's take: Microsoft continues to tightly control the release of some of its most important pieces of legacy software. While enthusiasts and programmers are eager to see newer versions of MS-DOS ...

Oldie but goldie: In recent years, retro gaming has turned into big business. Home consoles have somewhat adopted a backward-compatible approach, and PC-focused initiatives such as GOG have infused ...

I cut my teeth on DOS with DOS 6, so admittedly I was only around for the more matured version of the OS, but it still taught me an awful lot of about computers that has served me very well since then ...

Strictly-speaking modern x86 computers running Windows should be compatible with any software written for the very first MS-DOS PCs starting with the original IBM PC and its clones. In practice, it's ...