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Seems like a joke pr.

>Some woman

>named Kyle

https://github.com/kfarwell/werchan

op?

>>980774

any reason to use this and not free dos for learning (d)os dev?

>>980785

These are the earliest versions of DOS, so probably not except as part of a retrocomputing hobby.

No doubt that this is the coolest PR I've ever seen.

>>980807

Only if you're completely braindead.

>>980781

To be fair, Kyle shouldn't be using a girl's pic as his avatar.

>>980785

https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/tree/master/v1.25/source

Those ASM files are small as fuck and easy to read. FreeDOS is more complicated shit.

>>980805

ARACHNE runs on MS-DOS too. So does 4DOS. I have no clue why they are listing shit like they're FreeDOS exclusive features when they're obviously not.

>programmer makes a joke about old MS code being shit

>retard gets confused and posts on 8ch about it

>>980868

>posts on /tech/

>posts /pol/ content

>>980772 (OP)

is she a she (male)?

>>980785

learning ASM, legacy code.

OK Kyle, ace. I know you use[d] 8ch, and the reaction you got is exemplary.

Anyone here, and elsewhere know not to take Microsoft's bait. They can at anytime relicense their DOS, worst, Apple Inc. reclaim it from the CP/M hack:

https://invidio.us/watch?v=9iwIN8E94VQ

Novell*

>>980772 (OP)

is every "woman" in tech a tranny?

>>980781

These days you never know.

>MSDOS is open source now

YEAR OF THE WINDOWS 3 DESKTOP!

>>981126

open source =/= free

>>981168

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What I really hate is that these tight fucking cunts couldn't even be fucking bothered to release the later version, like tossing this bit of useless shit out there is something we should be grateful for. This could really improve Dos emulation but fuck you, right?

>>981139

How goes your LinuxFoocked?

**Strange that Microsoft wouldn't use Jacobsen v. Katzer to argue any and all charges made to their DOS woi*

Would belong to them, even if the copyright belongs to Novell now

>>981179

Ya 1.25 is completely shit. No hard drive support and it's floppy system is some weird 320k on 5.25 format and some other odd size on 8". No 3.5" support.

DOS 3.x and later is what most people consider "dos compatible". Anything before 4.11 is fucking useless on anything but a XT.

>>981163

like thats ever stopped anyone

>>980875

HEIL HITLER

>>980805

Open source projects have the tendency to become bloated.

>>980772 (OP)

It's a joke. Get it?

>cleaning up old code

>deletes everything

Harhar. Now I explained it. Now it's not funny. But of course, given the state of this board, this has become state of the art content. But of course, the discussion has devolved into idpol, the same discussion normal techfags had deried historically. Of fucking course.

At least >>980825 gets it.

>>981398

My coworkers are massive lefties and they don't get it either.

>>980868

>>981353

You do understand that you are arguing about a staged propaganda photo, right?

>>980772 (OP)

I'm not sure how I missed this. Hopefully they do the kernel for Windows 95 and 98, too.

>just cleaning up some old cruft

TRIGGERED

Will this mean anything for FreeDOS development?

Someone should compare the source code to see what Microsoft did differently vs them

>>991395

>Will this mean anything for FreeDOS development?

No. FDOS is way past msdos 1.25.

1.25 might as well be a different operating system. Just about any dos program will need 3.x or better to run. 1.25 is before many common standards where set.

>>991359

is it too autistic to think that if they released 98 source code we could actually make it into a good modern OS? IMAGINE:

-muh boomer GUI and muh feels

-it's not linux so it's not utter trash

-not botnet

would it even be possible to update it to work with modern stuff?

>>996916

Probably. Apart from HD video streaming and vidya, there's not a whole lot that's changed since then. IIRC you can do the former and some of the latter on 98 if you use KernelEx. The only issue would be security and lack of EFI support. x86 is also pozzed so that's a showstopper for /tech/

>>996916

http://toastytech.com/guis/miscb.html

>>980772 (OP)

>MS-DOS 1 and 2

It's literally nothing. I want Windows 3.11 and NT3.51 and their graphical shells open sourced.

>>997034

They released the source to Windows 3.1's File Manager at least.

Baby steps, anon.

>>997034

Why? The whole Windows 3.1 package is so trivial when compared to contemporary "bloated" systems that any CS college student should be able to recreate a clone in short time. This includes a full recreation of Windows DDE and Windows COM of Windows 3.1.

>>980889

Why the fuck would you want to learn 8086 asm in 2018? It doesn't have much in common with modern architectures. Yes, including x86-64.

>>997965

>how to convert your 8086 code to x86_64

1. put "R" in front of all register names

2. replace "int 0x21" with "syscall"

there, you're done

>>980772 (OP)

I remember hosting that shitty Tokumei instance for people on 8ch couple of years ago.

>>997965

Possibly the most retarded thing I've read on this board, and that's saying a lot considering what a dumpster fire this place has become.

>>997965

>Trying to LARP as a LARPing /tech/nigger

Wew. Not even the retards here are as retarded as you. >>>/g/

>>997965

So you can write echo in 153 bytes

>>981096

And that's the reason I want this world to burn.