MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced! We Build and Run it!
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Microsoft has released the code to MS-DOS 4.00 on GitHub; Dave takes you a tour of the code, builds it, and runs it on original hardware. For my book on lif...
  • AggressivelyPassiveEnglish
    7•10 months ago

    Because Ryan wrote it like this 10 years ago and nobody bothered to rewrite it in C.

    Back then, I’d guess most developers were relatively fluent in assembly, so if there’s only a small change to make, they’d just change the assembly and move on.