Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
>
> 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.
The source for 2.11 merely required a pledge of the first-born son
of the CEO or product line manager in the contract, the NT source
requires the CEO to grant the rights to every child of every employee
unto the third generation as computed by an early Pentium in which
three equals infinity.
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Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 10:38:09 GMT