Or if we need to start the bidding low.. QBasic, perhaps? :)

Sorry they started even lower actually! GW-BASIC!

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-so...

Haha, yes! Although I'm being a bit sneaky, because QBasic would also indirectly get us Edit, I think ;-) It'd be interesting to see the code behind the 90s DOS IDEs.

Gw-basic looks a lot like what command.com should have been.

Kids these days ...

billg's very first BASIC, which wrote on a night flight from Albuguerque to NY, or some such, for the Altair. 'Sbin a few decades, so ah disremember.

See Ichbiah's Le Nouveaux Magiciens.

And, get off my lawn! Grrr.

XP or its parts leaked. Surprisingly Win95 codebase never saw the light of day.

I kind of wish 95 or 98 would leak so we could more effectively patch it. I would love to see a modern TLS implementation running on 9x, it's one of the main barriers to browsing on old machines. I suppose Retrozilla comes close.

Kind of a silly thing to want, and of course "unsafe" for many tasks, but fun for hobbyists nonetheless.