Microsoft Open-Sources 86-DOS 1.00 on Its 45th Anniversary, Releasing Code Transcribed From Tim Paterson's Original Printouts
On April 28, 2026, Microsoft published the earliest known DOS source code under the MIT License, including the 86-DOS 1.00 kernel and PC-DOS 1.00 development snapshots transcribed from Tim Paterson's printouts.
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