On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Max Eskin wrote:
> Very interesting! I learn something new every day! But, was the
> source available to the public? If not, it's not much different from NT
> now, which makes source available under an NDA.
NOT to the public. But a lot looser than any other version of MS-DOS
before or since, since basically they WANTED hardware manufacturers to be
able to customize IO.SYS.
Source for MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM remained thoroughly unavailable.
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