Microsoft releases MS-DOS and Word for Windows source code

[Arthur]

Source: The Official Microsoft Blog / Code: MS-DOS, Word for Windows

 

On Tuesday, we dusted off the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows. With the help of the Computer History Museum, we are making this code available to the public for the first time.

 

The museum has done an excellent job of curating some of the most significant historical software programs in computing history. 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.

 

[hawc]

503 Unavailable error or slowness and time out on both code links.

[Arthur]

The site is getting hammered!

 

Here are the direct links to the source code.

 

http://s3.computerhistory.org/source/msdos.zip
http://s3.computerhistory.org/source/Word-1.1a-CHM-Distribution.zip

[Arthur]

Source code now available on GitHub.

 

https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS

 

This repo contains the original source-code and compiled binaries for MS-DOS 1.25 and MS-DOS 2.0.

 

These are the same files originally shared at the Computer History Museum on March 25th 2014 and are being (re)published in this repo to make them easier to find, reference-to in external writing and works, and to allow exploration and experimentation for those interested in early PC Operating Systems.

 

License

All files within this repo are released under the MIT (OSI) License as per the LICENSE file stored in the root of this repo.