Ignore them. Send a pull request with the full source of Arch Linux.
dumb question maybe, but where is the full source of arch Linux? My understanding is that its just vanilla Linux that uses the pacman package manager.
Am I wrong in saying the pacman is the Arch source? Or is there more going on in the tar ball?
MS-DOS, Source public available on March 25 2014 with MS Research License, released with as Free Software MIT license in 2018, this yer released as Open Source MS-DOS 4.0. Anyway, the Source code was available since 2014, only different licenses since then.
FreeDos is better anyways
Sure, but it’s still really interesting from a historic point of view.
Where is the ctrl+alt+del function defined? I just want to see what made that sequence work. I’d also be interested in where ctrl+break is defined.
Ctrl+alt+delete was a separate interrupt line direct from the keyboard. That is, when you pressed the three keys, the interrupt signal was asserted, causing the CPU to jump to the interrupt service routine, which should be in the source code package.
is it in the source code, or is it just passed right to BIOS?
It was originally a BIOS interrupt, but eventually got captured by the OS. Here’s Dave Bradley talking about inventing it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K_lg7w8gAXQ
Bill does not think that is funny.
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Probably Microsoft is trying to “save” some of its reputation after adding ads to Windows 11 one more time
They found a new 0-day exploit
They probably only got clearance from their lawyers (or IBM’s lawyers) just now.
A lot of proprietary software includes bits from other proprietary software that they don’t have the rights to open-source. And untangling and removing those bits takes time and effort.
Woah MIT license. That’s a lot more permissive than I expected.
when rust
Would this have Bill’s code in it ? Or was he off the shop floor by then ??
Wake me up when they open source Windows 10/11.
Should have just before the heat death of the universe (if we are lucky)
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I think nobody wants that. I can think of a better way to fuck up your hardware and it pulls nails too.
Microsoft…you keep it. We good.
😂
I want it, it’s never ever gonna happen tho.
What’s the use case that would upset Microsoft the most?
Idk, maybe fork it under the name MS-DOSNT
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Use it to program an functional DOS emulator for MacOS 8?
!remind 10 years when they will release the source code of Windows 3.0 for non-commercial use
(3.11 will take another 10 years)
Is this useful for hobbyists besides poking around and seeking the design philosophy at work back then?
Like would there be any advantage or reason to implement this in a home project? For example maybe that it’s lightweight and has some rare compatibility or anything like that?
There are a lot of decades old embedded systems out there. Every so often you hear about a big company still relying on floppy disks and other old tech, including major railways and airplane companies. Having the source code will help with debugging better than having to disassemble or other reverse engineering.
ATC is a famous one of those lol
6.22 or foff
Wake me when they release DOS 6.x source code.
Did they use source control of any kind back then?
Soke vrsions of DOS used a VCS named Source Library Manager, SLM, aka Slime. Later, it became Microsoft Delta, and eventually SourceSafe, then they switched to SourceDepot, which was a flavor of Perforce.
Wow ok, thanks!
