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The Museum is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of computer history, and is home to the largest international collection of computing artifacts in the world, encompassing computer hardware, software, documentation, ephemera, photographs and moving images. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California is a nonprofit organization with a four-decade history as the world’s leading institution exploring the history of computing and its ongoing impact on society. To search the Museum’s online catalog of more than 80,000 artifacts, click here.
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For other releases in the historic source code series, seeĪPPLE II DOS, IBM APL, Apple Macpaint and QuickDraw, Adobe Photoshop
#Mostrecent version of ms dos software#
"We think preserving historic source code like these two programs is key to understanding how software has evolved from primitive roots to become a crucial part of our civilization,” says Shustek.įor a blog posting surrounding the release of this source code, please visit: “By contributing these source codes to the Computer History Museum archives, Microsoft is making these historic systems from the early era of personal computing available to the community for historical and technical scholarship.” “MS-DOS and Word for Windows built the foundation for Microsoft’s success in the technology industry,” said Roy Levin, distinguished engineer and managing director, Microsoft Research. We are today revealing the technical magic by releasing the source code to version 1.1a of Word for Windows. It was a remarkable marketing and engineering achievement. The 1989 release of Word for Windows changed all that: within four years it was generating over half the worldwide word processing market revenue. Microsoft's DOS-based version of Word, first released in 1983, was not a success against the dominant word processor of that era, WordPerfect. "Version 1.1 fits an entire operating system – limited as it was – into only 12K bytes of memory, which is tiny compared to today's software," said Len Shustek, CHM Chairman. We are today releasing the source code of MS-DOS version 1.1 from 1982, and of version 2.0 from 1983.
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It shipped as "PC-DOS" for IBM and "MS-DOS" for other PC manufacturers. Without their own operating system already in place, they licensed a product from nearby Seattle Computer Products and worked closely with IBM to make the changes they wanted. Microsoft, which was providing the BASIC language interpreter, agreed to also supply an operating system.
Though most vendors were kept in the dark about the project, code-named “Chess,” IBM developed a unique relationship between their Boca Raton-based team and Microsoft, then a small company based in Seattle. IBM went outside the company for many hardware and software components of their 1981 personal computer. The Computer History Museum (CHM) announced today that it has, with permission from Microsoft Corporation, made available original source code for two historic programs: MS-DOS, the 1982 "Disk Operating System" for IBM-compatible personal computers, and Word for Windows, the 1990 Windows-based version of their word processor.