Microsoft opens door to the past by releasing 86-DOS and PC-DOS 1.00

Antiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it's 86-DOS 1.00 getting the open ...

A Decade of AMD Ryzen: 10 Years of CPUs Tested

From near collapse to CPU dominance, we revisit 10 years of AMD Ryzen, benchmarking every flagship generation to see how ...
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This Free Windows App Shows You Everything Your Computer Is Secretly Doing

I installed AppControl on my Windows 11 PC and was shocked by how much was happening in the background without me knowing.

Microsoft open-sources “the earliest DOS source code discovered to date”

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this ...

Microsoft open-sources 86-DOS 1.00, the ancestor of Windows

The source code for 86-DOS 1.00, the OS that eventually became MS-DOS and Windows, is now available on GitHub.
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Apple history

May 3, 1984: Apple marks the all-important first 100 days of Mac sales, signaling whether the product launch is a hit with customers. The results outstrip even Apple co-founder Steve Jobs‘ most ...
American Libraries Magazine

55 Moments That Redefined Librarianship

To celebrate 150 years of ALA, a timeline of events that changed librarianship since the Association's 1876 founding.
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45 years later, earliest DOS source code transcribed from a stack of old printouts found in garage

Microsoft VP confirms transcribed document “is perfect and recompiles byte for byte to the original binaries.” ...