Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code ...

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 ...
SiliconANGLE

Google opens its Fuchsia operating system to outside code contributors

Members of the open-source community can now contribute code to Fuchsia, an experimental operating system that Google LLC has been developing over the past four years. Fuchsia first appeared with ...
Hackaday

An Entire RISC-V Operating System In 2000 Lines

While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...
Ars Technica

Developers create open-source OS kernels using .NET tools

Developers are working to create experimental open-source operating systems with modular microkernels using the C# programming language. The SharpOS and Cosmos projects both announced their first ...

Microsoft releases the earliest DOS source code ever discovered as open source

Microsoft has officially released another significant piece of DOS history. The "Paterson Listings" include the earliest ...
IPWatchdog

SynthOS generates operating system code for IoT devices, reducing development costs

One service available to help IoT device developers more easily create the real-time operating system (RTOS) necessary to run applications on a smart device is SynthOS. Developed by Zeidman ...
Hackaday

lines of code

While Microsoft and Apple don’t release the source code for their operating systems, a good estimate is that it takes around 50 million lines of code to run these software behemoths. The Linux kernel ...