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Microsoft Just Released MS-DOS Source Code!
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this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2024
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That thought occurred to me but is code this old even still relevant at all?
I ask this as someone who writes simple scripts and would never call themselves a coder.
For the most part probably not, but Microsoft cares a lot about backwards compatibility so I imagine some of this code still lives on in Windows
Though you should take this with a grain of salt, since I'm saying this as someone who 1. never looked at Wine source code 2. used the Windows API only once, for a very small program 3. is still learning programming, so I wouldn't call myself a coder (yet) either
yeah there are even still some remaining windows 3.0 dialogues used in the latest win11
As someone with an IBM PS/1 running 4.0, I'm excited to be able to modify it, distribute it, etc