In case anyone who reads this newsgroup has somehow missed it, Microsoft
has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT license
including binaries of the tools required to build it. Some parts of Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 are also included - the rest of it will follow
if it can be found.

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

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Re: MS-DOS 4.0 open-sourced
By: David Goodwin to All on Mon Apr 29 2024 08:51 am

In case anyone who reads this newsgroup has somehow missed it, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT license including binaries of the tools required to build it. Some parts of Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 are also included - the rest of it will follow if it can be found.

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

I've heard MS-DOS 4.0 was fairly buggy and people avoided using it.. It may still be interesting to look at the source code though.

Nightfox
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I've heard MS-DOS 4.0 was fairly buggy and people avoided using it.. It may still be interesting to look at the source code though.

Never heard about bugs although I wouldn't be surprised. Story here was it
had a larger memory footprint without any significant for the time advantage over 3.3

Spec


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In case anyone who reads this newsgroup has somehow missed it, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT license including binaries of the tools required to build it. Some parts of Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 are also included - the rest of it will follow
if it can be found.

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

I compiled it in FreeDOS - glad MS released the code, its really nice to p0ke around the early bits of computing that sucked me in...

It's up @ 2oFB for the rest of eternity. Yay!



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In case anyone who reads this newsgroup has somehow missed it, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0 under the MIT license including binaries of the tools required to build it. Some parts of Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 are also included - the rest of it will follow
if it can be found.

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

BASED! :D i has the code as soon as it came out! i need to figure out how to compile it xD

--mary4 (Victoria Crenshaw) the 286 enthusiast

... A PC a day keeps the Apple away!

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