Microsoft Launches Open-Source MS-DOS On GitHub

[Guest]

Ok, and then ?

[dungeon]

Ok, and then ?

And then nothing

It is just shitty ASM code who was made famous because of the business model of licensing the same operating system to many PC makers, blah, blah

[brrrrttttt]

How long before they release DOS 6.22? 10 years?

It's still quite widely used in production! There are a couple of machines at work with uptime into decades.

[Mavman]

A-ah!

Better late than never!!!


(DOS 6.22 would be the crown jewel.
Best MS product ever!
Oh wait, DOS was not invented by MS!
They just bought it, if I recall correctly. Ahahahah)

[microcode]

Lovely, it's great that it's not some museum-style "shared source" nonsense that you can't actually use, but a very reasonable actual open source license.

[brrrrttttt]

A-ah!

Better late than never!!!


(DOS 6.22 would be the crown jewel.
Best MS product ever!
Oh wait, DOS was not invented by MS!
They just bought it, if I recall correctly. Ahahahah)

Yup, it was QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System). MS took the quick part out.

[garegin]

UEFI killed dos. U don't even see it for update utilities. Nowadays they use either winpe or Linux.

[geearf]

A-ah!

Better late than never!!!


(DOS 6.22 would be the crown jewel.
Best MS product ever!
Oh wait, DOS was not invented by MS!
They just bought it, if I recall correctly. Ahahahah)

Apart from Windows, most of their products came from somewhere else I believe.

[Milan Kerslager]

The first widely usable version was 3.3. There were serious troubles with earlier versions. And Microsoft promisses to IBM multitasking for version 3.

[timofonic]

Perhaps once we can properly emulate it. Qemu absolutely fails when it comes to digital preservation.

This is just one of many bugs:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1574246

Desqview and DOSShell are not functional either because of our failure to correctly simulate a computer from the 80s. Microsoft can take their time with the 6.22 source release until we catch up

Yes, I sound bitter because I am fond of DOS and it is getting quite hard to access it. DosBox focuses on games but there is more to life than that

I agree!

I believe different projects should merge their efforts into QEmu metaproject:

DosBOX, DosBOX-X, 86Box, PCem...

Collaboration is the key to prosperity. Please make it happen.

The future is Free Source.