MS-DOS source code now can download free

Microsoft shook off dust from its first software products and made the source code for the MS-DOS operating system, as well as the Word for Windows text editor, available for free download.

Henceforth, anyone who is interested in the history of Microsoft's famous software products will be able to download them from the site Museum of Computer History. The network posted the source code for MS-DOS version 1.1, as well as the text editor Word for Windows version 1.1a. These software products were among the most popular in the 80s of the last century.

"In 1980, IBM turned to Microsoft to help her work on the project, codenamed" Chess. " What happened in the end, has become a cornerstone in the history of personal computers. The final product of this project was the interpreter of the BASIC computer language for IBM computers. Following this, IBM was asked by Microsoft to create an operating system for them. Without any experience in this area, Microsoft licensed the operating system from Seattle Computer Products, and based on it, developed PC-DOS and MS-DOS. In 1983, the light saw the Microsoft Word application for MS-DOS, which supported the use of a computer mouse. And the first version of Word for the Windows operating system came out only in 1989 and immediately became a real blockbuster. "

In the distant 80-ies the entire staff of Microsoft consisted of only 100 people staff, and the operating system MS-DOS fit into a funny 300 KB of disk space. Much has changed in the past decades. And so amateur programmers, and simply computer enthusiasts, had a real opportunity take a look to the legendary code from which it all began.

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