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@GlitchyZorua@wetdry.world I'm surprised they didn't lose the source code

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@icantcode @GlitchyZorua Only some of it, it seems.

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@GlitchyZorua It's just 4.x.

The one the world remembers is 6.x

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@GlitchyZorua Have you visited freedos.org/? and it's not just for reference.

www.freedos.orgThe FreeDOS Project
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it was licensed under MIT before though, wasn't it?

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@GlitchyZorua @Bugspriet Finally, the German government can go full FOSS!

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@GlitchyZorua
I hope we see 6.22 at some point. And dare I say, old Windows?

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@GlitchyZorua it is for a while

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@GlitchyZorua this is the best (in fdisk.c) 😅

Screenshot from dos4.0 fdisk.c with this comment: "To whoever winds up maintaining this, I will apoligize in advance. I had just learned 'C' when writing this, so out of ignorance of the finer points of the langauge I did a lot of things by brute force. Hope this doesn't mess you up too much - MT 5/20/86"
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@jackf723 Ok re: your last boost, your next assignment is to install it on my Lenovo, as i want to start using it full time #MS-DOS 4.0 haha.

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@CamstoneFaux @GlitchyZorua I seens it! Very nifty.

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@GlitchyZorua Open sourced and MIT licensed!

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@GlitchyZorua 7.0 when T_T

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@GlitchyZorua without the corresponding gwbasic though 😾

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@GlitchyZorua And it's under an MIT license!

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@GlitchyZorua "But does it run MS-DOS?"

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Microsoft *owns GitHub* and even they can't turn off a repo's pull requests. I guess the technology for that is actually impossible.

“[…] please don’t send Pull Requests suggesting any modifications to the source files”

github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS

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The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes - microsoft/MS-DOS
GitHubGitHub - microsoft/MS-DOS: The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposesThe original sources of MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 for reference purposes - microsoft/MS-DOS
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@GlitchyZorua@wetdry.world and also that weird multitasking dos 4.0 beta it seems

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@GlitchyZorua@wetdry.world actually no that's just the binaries, still kinda cool to have a barely official release

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@GlitchyZorua not directly true - only Version 4.0 was released just now.

1.25 and 2.0 were released in 2018.

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@GlitchyZorua now compile it with free software.

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@GlitchyZorua huh, i believe some of the super early versions of MS-DOS were already open source, interesting that they're releasing the source code for some later versions

watch someone find a massive security bug that's somehow still in windows today in the next couple hours
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@GlitchyZorua @graydon [octodon.social]

Not DOS 3.x? Not DOS 5.x? Not the 2 DOS versions I've actually run?

What a strange line to draw. I wonder what the significance is.

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@GlitchyZorua Well, whew. Now I don't need to worry about hiding my diskettes from the feds.

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@GlitchyZorua Wow literally MINUTES from me talking about how it'll be difficult to make a custom OS (for a project I'm working on)

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@GlitchyZorua@wetdry.world

congratulations to @starfrost@wetdry.world and the great work of people at microsoft again!

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@GlitchyZorua oh the flash backs..breaking up games into directories and hiding them from teachers

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@GlitchyZorua making evryones screen saver over the local network mulder and scully

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@GlitchyZorua digital life was so simple then

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@GlitchyZorua no ads, just message boards curated to your own specifications or as we like to call it the fediverse

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@GlitchyZorua Nice!

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@GlitchyZorua Now we can finally check whether John Doe was right!!

youtube.com/watch?v=srRigD-8oF

YouTubeOriginal binary code for MS-DOSBy Julio José
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@GlitchyZorua@wetdry.world this has been a thing for a while, but i think they recently added dos 4

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@tauon yea lemme fix dat

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@GlitchyZorua Microsoft employee here working on FOSS:

YAAAAY :3

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@GlitchyZorua I hope they open-source 6.22. They probably don't because I think it's in use in some RTOS applications and also likely some encumbrances. You'd be surprised how many vendors have code in DOS.

Yes, DOS is often used as a real-time OS. It makes a lot of sense. If you don't have many TSR's running, it works great for that.

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I seem to remember a discussion back when they first released the sources about there being some licensing issue with it where there were parts of v6 that couldn't be released due to copyright issues
I could have completely imagined that though, that's entirely possible
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@GlitchyZorua DOS has been source-available for a number of years now, they just recently added 4.0.

idk why they haven't added 6.22 yet but there's probably some deps that prevent this

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@sterophonick @GlitchyZorua 1.25 and 2.0 was source available for a number of years, then they gave it MIT license when MS uploaded them to github.

nice to see 4.0 (ex-3.40) has the same folder structure as later seen in the incomplete leak of 6.0
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@sterophonick @GlitchyZorua it's funny cuz from what i have seen, MS-DOS 3, 5(.02) and 6(.20/22) were/are the more common used, so they literally released the ones that most peoples are not interested in :blabcat:

(also if i recall, they are not compilable in the version they are released, don't remember if it's because of the code, the license or both)

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