MSDOS and Word source releases

I too would like to see the source-code for early Macintosh applications like Word; Microsoft's early use of a "P-code" intermediary was known at the time but as could be expected no details were available. In the early 1980s we were solidly entrenched with the UCSD p-System and we were a little surprised that Microsoft used p-code since Apple made strong representations about their use of Lisa-based cross-compilers and native-code generation for Macintosh. These days we get snippets like this: http://www.memecentral.com/mylife.htm But Charles's mission was to compete against the surprisingly successful VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program. He was to develop Microsoft's spreadsheet, a project code-named "EP" (for "Electronic Paper") and later marketed as Microsoft Multiplan. That task he entrusted to Doug Klunder, programmer extraordinaire, who would go on to lead the development of the unmatched Excel after Multiplan's lukewarm market reception in the face of Lotus 1-2-3. I had a slightly different mission. I was to write the so-called "p-code C compiler" that was crucial to Charles's business strategy. His strategy came to be known as the Revenue Bomb. Here's how the Revenue Bomb worked. You would list all the different business products that Microsoft would develop on the horizontal axis. On the vertical axis, you would list all the different personal computers that were coming out from the dozens of hardware manufacturers. The p-code C compiler, which I named "CS" and which was used for more than ten years to develop Microsoft application software, would allow us to create separate versions of each product very easily for each of the different machines. What we didn't realize -- nor did most people in those days -- was that there wouldn't be dozens of different PC architectures competing for the market. There would soon be only two: IBM's and Apple's Macintosh. But CS gave Microsoft the upper hand for many years in developing Mac and IBM applications hand-in-hand. I spent my first summer at Microsoft writing CS, then returned the next summer to work on a secret new project. It was to be a modest word-processor to serve as an inexpensive entree to the business software market. By getting people used to our user interface, they would then be able to easily learn Multiplan and our future business products: Chart and File among them. By October of 1983, when Word Shipped, we had more than 30 programmers and one marketing guy in the now-getting-serious Applications Division. The problem was, Multiplan was already done and its user interface was already out there. I had to be compatible with it. My mission: write the world's first wordprocessor with a spreadsheet user-interface.