Microsoft publicly released MS-DOS source code on GitHub

Last week, Microsoft announced that it will announce the MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 source code on GitHub to help programmers have easier access to the early days of the operating system. This is the second time that the first version of the operating system has been released by Microsoft, the last being through the Computer History Museum in March 2014.

Microsoft bought GitHub earlier this year for $ 7.5 billion. And according to Microsoft's Rich Turner, the release of the MS-DOS open source again on GitHub will help developers and GitHub users more easily find, read and reference than compressed files. can download.

Microsoft said that, like files that were shared via the Computer History Museum, the files uploaded to GitHub this time were not edited. Users can fork this repository and experience it themselves. If you want to edit unrelated files or add additional content unrelated to the source code, the user can send it to PR for review and review.

In addition to the source code, this time Microsoft also added information about how the first version of this operating system appeared.

You can download the MS-DOS source code on GitHub here: https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS

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