As part of this ongoing project, the museum will make available two of the most widely used software programs of the 1980’s, MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 and Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a, to help future generations of technologists better understand the roots of personal computing.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_bl ... ublic.aspx
Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows
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Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind
Nice find 
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According to the comments in these sources, at least one programmer had fun:
These sources answered the question: "Why [] are considered as special characters ?" (http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33992#p33992)
In short - since MS-DOS 2.0 internaly some ANSI escape sequences are used for some kind of signaling: For example ESC"[K" for erase line.
penpen
.According to the comments in these sources, at least one programmer had fun:
EXEC.ASM wrote:; must contain 4D5A (yay zibo!)
; can we get the space?
; nope... cry and sob
; save him for a rainy day
; did we read the right number?
; yep... continue
; exactly the wrong number... no memory
; no starto, chumo!
; zibo arises!
; WOMP!
; Wham!
These sources answered the question: "Why [] are considered as special characters ?" (http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33992#p33992)
In short - since MS-DOS 2.0 internaly some ANSI escape sequences are used for some kind of signaling: For example ESC"[K" for erase line.
penpen
Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind
Would have been nice if they released all of the latest versions of DOS and maybe even Windows 3.11.
Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind
Fascinating. It's 30+ years since MS-DOS 2.0. Makes one wonder how much _other_ dead code must be lugging along.penpen wrote:These sources answered the question: "Why [] are considered as special characters ?" (http://www.dostips.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=33992#p33992)
In short - since MS-DOS 2.0 internaly some ANSI escape sequences are used for some kind of signaling: For example ESC"[K" for erase line.
Maybe, someday, even NT 3.1. Would make the perfect companion to the great book that was the first edition of Inside Windows NT.Squashman wrote:Would have been nice if they released all of the latest versions of DOS and maybe even Windows 3.11.
Liviu
Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind
i was seraching for ms-dos today and i find the source code of it in computerhistory
to bad is asm
but i dont know why they release ver 2???
to bad is asm
but i dont know why they release ver 2???
Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind
Yes, they released version 2, too.
It is in the same ".zip" file in subfolder "v20source" (assembler sources, too).
penpen
Edit: Somehow i've overseen the "why" in the post above; sorry for that.
It is in the same ".zip" file in subfolder "v20source" (assembler sources, too).
penpen
Edit: Somehow i've overseen the "why" in the post above; sorry for that.
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Re: Microsoft makes source code for MS-DOS and Word for Wind
yes they release ver 1 and 2
but the last version was 6 (or 7 (some of pepole say the ms dos for win 98 ))
i wonder why they didn't release the last version
but the last version was 6 (or 7 (some of pepole say the ms dos for win 98 ))
i wonder why they didn't release the last version