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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by ramon156 on Sunday May 24, 2026 @04:21AM (#48255548)
I dont think I've ever seen a commit that says "49 years ago". Damn.
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by pletnes on Sunday May 24, 2026 @07:50AM (#48256502)
1968 https://www.netlib.org/go/fft.f
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by formerly_proven on Sunday May 24, 2026 @04:54AM (#48255701)
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by zymhan on Sunday May 24, 2026 @10:24PM (#48262875)
I was confused by the short commit history, and then I checked the branches.

I love that someone went to this effort.

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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by RobotToaster on Sunday May 24, 2026 @12:43PM (#48258811)
Not quite as old, but brl-cad is still in active development and has commits from 1983. https://github.com/BRL-CAD/brlcad/graphs/contributors?all=1
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by mapM on Sunday May 24, 2026 @10:58PM (#48263024)
It's funny that the .gitignore is marked as being from 49 years ago ...
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by nextaccountic on Monday May 25, 2026 @02:09AM (#48263908)
Even the README here is (erroneously?) timestamped as 1978 https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502

Which is unlikely since it seems to be written by AI

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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by chungy on Monday May 25, 2026 @06:05AM (#48265179)
Files in Git don't have timestamps, only commits do. It got swept up when `git commit --date=...` was run.
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Re:Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code disc... by nextaccountic on Monday May 25, 2026 @07:07AM (#48265521)
oh I see. proper archeology would be to have more commits then
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