https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR6F0EdyulA
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...
What are the consequences of this
Like does this mean they could develop an app where you just have a library with all those nostalgic legacy games
DOS wasn't a very complex OS and has already been reverse engineered more or less completely. Apps like DosBox already exist. It might cause a couple of minor revelations if/when the source is finally opened but I doubt it will have a big impact.
It might cause a couple of minor revelations if/when the source is finally opened
Isn't the whole post about it being opened? It's released: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
They trickle out versions over the years. This time they published version 4. The versions up to 6.22 (standalone) and up to 9 7-8 (part of Windows 9x-ME) are yet to be published.
You're right. I'll correct it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS#MS-DOS_7/8_(as_part_of_Windows_9x)