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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by BobbyTables2 on Sunday May 24, 2026 @11:08AM (#48257866)
Ah, the good ol’ “Embrace, Extend, … Extinguish”
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by JJOKOCHAA on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:25AM (#48266576)
lmao
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by pjmlp on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:42AM (#48276415)
Yes, sadly even VB is at the end of the road, as the .NET team nowadays only focus on C#.
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by dboreham on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:49PM (#48258872)
Nit: the pdp-10 is generally considered a mainframe not a minicomputer.
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by verst on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:54PM (#48269687)
They had a working PDP-10 at the Living Computers Museum (since shut down by Paul Allen's estate). Definitely a mainframe. That thing takes up an entire room.
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by pjmlp on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @03:41AM (#48276410)
Kudos for the compilers reference, this is something that many to this day aren't aware, thinking that BASIC started as interpreted and compilers came later, when it was actually an engineering decision to make it fit into microcomputers.
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