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General => Technology & Hardware => Topic started by: SmiLinSniPeR on March 26, 2014, 09:58:51 am

Title: Microsoft makes source code available to museum of technology
Post by: SmiLinSniPeR on March 26, 2014, 09:58:51 am
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/03/25/microsoft-makes-source-code-for-ms-dos-and-word-for-windows-available-to-public.aspx (http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2014/03/25/microsoft-makes-source-code-for-ms-dos-and-word-for-windows-available-to-public.aspx)
Title: MSDOS 1.0
Post by: Tiwaking! on March 26, 2014, 11:10:05 am
MSDOS 1.0 was only 300kb? Well I never
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It’s mind-boggling to think of the growth from those days when Microsoft had under 100 employees and a Microsoft product (MS-DOS) had less than 300KB (yes, kilobytes) of source code. From those roots we’ve grown in a few short decades to become a company that has sold more than 200 million licenses of Windows 8 and has over 1 billion people using Microsoft Office. Great things come from modest beginnings, and the great Microsoft devices and services of the future will probably start small, just as MS-DOS and Word for Windows did.
Title: Re: Microsoft makes source code available to museum of technology
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 26, 2014, 12:04:37 pm
I could have done it in 200kb.
Title: Re: Microsoft makes source code available to museum of technology
Post by: Pyromanik on March 27, 2014, 11:33:10 am
I feel deprived that the article only linked to other articles about MS releasing code. No code to be found.
Did they print it on paper and frame it in a physical museum or something?
Title: Microsoft 1 - Spacemonkey 0
Post by: Tiwaking! on March 27, 2014, 12:27:58 pm
I could have done it in 200kb.
According to Wikipedia they wrote it in less than 160kb because 160kb single sided floppy disks were the standard at the time

Seriously though: $40 for IBM PC DOS or $240 for CP/M-86. That isnt even competition
Title: Re: Microsoft makes source code available to museum of technology
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 27, 2014, 12:34:14 pm
I feel deprived that the article only linked to other articles about MS releasing code. No code to be found.
Did they print it on paper and frame it in a physical museum or something?

It would make some cool wallpaper for a house.
Title: Re: Microsoft makes source code available to museum of technology
Post by: Retardobot on March 27, 2014, 03:00:44 pm
Microsoft's on site museum on their Redwood campus is pretty awesome.

Oh, none of you have been there? Well, you'll just have to take my word for it.

HAHAHAHAHA PIG FUCKERS.
Title: Re: Microsoft makes source code available to museum of technology
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 27, 2014, 03:54:12 pm
Microsoft's on site museum on their Redwood campus is pretty awesome.

Oh, none of you have been there? Well, you'll just have to take my word for it.

HAHAHAHAHA PIG FUCKERS.

You make us all so jealous.

Title: Re: Microsoft makes source code available to museum of technology
Post by: Retardobot on March 27, 2014, 04:01:32 pm
I'm so alone.
Title: Jokes on you!
Post by: Tiwaking! on March 28, 2014, 08:35:45 am
Microsoft's on site museum on their Redwood campus is pretty awesome.

Oh, none of you have been there? Well, you'll just have to take my word for it.

HAHAHAHAHA PIG FUCKERS.
And I thought the comments I leave in my code were harsh
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/03/27/hidden-jokes-exposed-in-microsoft-code/ (http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/03/27/hidden-jokes-exposed-in-microsoft-code/)
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Microsoft's programmers may have been creating some of the biggest and most important software titles back in the 1980s, but that didn’t stop them from joking around when crafting the code that powered them.

Yesterday, Microsoft and the Computer History Museum released the source code for early versions of Microsoft’s MS-DOS and Word programs, which one developer ciphered through and found hidden jokes.

Lines like “coded inline because we’re Gods,” were hidden throughout, the f-bomb gets dropped a few times, and programmers commented on their “dumb users.” All of the unusual comments can be seen below.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BjmSMlZIMAAMxg3.png)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bjl5nKkIYAAx2TU.png)
Title: Re: Microsoft makes source code available to museum of technology
Post by: Apostrophe Spacemonkey on March 28, 2014, 09:02:09 am
Bunch of hacks.
Title: Re: Microsoft makes source code available to museum of technology
Post by: Pyromanik on March 28, 2014, 09:24:38 am
fox news page not found.
I guess it was a fuck'n god hack of an article.