86-DOS 1.0 OSS

[Michael B. Smith]

I was at University when this was released. We made jokes about the company named “micro-soft”.

 

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-the-story-of-early-dos-development/

[Erik Goldoff]

I've long been a proponent of foundational knowledge, and back in the day when I was programming in Borland Turbo C my goto reference was DOS Undocumented.

Thanks for posting this link.

Erik

On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 8:34 AM Michael B. Smith <mic...@smithcons.com> wrote:

I was at University when this was released. We made jokes about the company named “micro-soft”.

 

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-the-story-of-early-dos-development/

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I was at University when this was released. We made jokes about the company named “micro-soft”.

 

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-the-story-of-early-dos-development/

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[Micheal Espinola]

Oh goodness, the hyphen!  I totally forgot about that early spelling. Good times... I wish I could remember exactly why I preferred QDOS and MS-DOS from IBM DOS, but I know that I did. There was a point that I simply never looked back or away from Microsoft. The 8086-based IBM PC was my first PC as a kid, although an Atari 400 was probably my first "computer". 

[Denes, Laszlo]

I actually still have a never opened package of MS-DOS floppy disks lol

 

Thank you in advance for your time.

 

Laszlo

 

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