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MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What are the consequences of this

Like does this mean they could develop an app where you just have a library with all those nostalgic legacy games

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

DOS wasn't a very complex OS and has already been reverse engineered more or less completely. Apps like DosBox already exist. It might cause a couple of minor revelations if/when the source is finally opened but I doubt it will have a big impact.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It might cause a couple of minor revelations if/when the source is finally opened

Isn't the whole post about it being opened? It's released: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

They trickle out versions over the years. This time they published version 4. The versions up to 6.22 (standalone) and ~~up to 9~~ 7-8 (part of Windows 9x-ME) are yet to be published.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Weren't versions for 95/98 7.0 and then for ME 8.0?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Very little. Older versions had already been open-sourced previously. This is specifically version 4.0, and the last version released was 8.0.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Technically correct, but 7 and 8 were part of Windows 9x.
The last standalone version was 6.22