MS releases vintage DOS source code

Vassilis Virvilis vasvir at iit.demokritos.gr
Fri Mar 28 16:15:08 CDT 2014


word 2.x was a 16bit program. Word 6.x was also 16bit. Word95 was the 
first 32bit AFAIK.

Somehow I doubt a port to 32bit would be trivial...

On 03/27/14 21:25, Steven Edwards wrote:
> The more interesting thing is the MS Word for Windows 2.x. It would be
> amusing if someone did a 32bit port as a winelib app.
>
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> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani at redhat.com
> <mailto:mstefani at redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Not directly relevant to us as DOS got outsourced to dosbox but here it
>     is nevertheless:
>     http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/microsoft-ms-dos-2-0-source-code/
>
>     If they keep releasing the source roughly 30 years after the OS hit the
>     market, then Windows 3.11 is still 10 years out.
>
>     bye
>              michael
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> --
> Steven Edwards
>
> "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that
> is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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