27 Oct
1998
27 Oct
'98
10:37 a.m.
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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