Microsoft releases source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0, Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a

Microsoft today released the source code for MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0 as well as Microsoft Word for Windows 1.1a. With the help of the Computer History Museum, the move means means this code is now available to the public. MS-DOS was a renamed version of 86-DOS, written by Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products and initially released in August 1980. Microsoft hired Paterson in May 1981, bought 86-DOS 1.10 for $75,000 in July, and renamed it MS-DOS. Microsoft released the first DOS-based version of Microsoft Word in 1983. In 1989, Word for Windows arrived, and within four years was...



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