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...
  • @MonkderDritte@feddit.deEnglish
    4•10 months ago

    People believed that they could write better assembly. For speed and size.

    Now we know we can’t write better C.

    Though my teacher in tech school a few years ago ran an entire OS, where everything is written in assembler. What was it?

    • @Macros@feddit.deEnglish
      4•10 months ago

      Maybe Kolibri OS?

      Its an amazing project, booting from a single floppy disk into a full graphical OS with multiple tools. And that on PCs with almost no RAM.

      I sometimes use it to backup ancient PCs.