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Let's get MS-DOS 6.22. :)

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I’d say that DOS 3.3 and 5.0 are probably the most desirable for pre-386 intel compatible processors systems

And Windows XP.

Or if we need to start the bidding low.. QBasic, perhaps? :)

Sorry they started even lower actually! GW-BASIC!

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/microsoft-open-so...

Haha, yes! Although I'm being a bit sneaky, because QBasic would also indirectly get us Edit, I think ;-) It'd be interesting to see the code behind the 90s DOS IDEs.

Gw-basic looks a lot like what command.com should have been.

Kids these days ...

billg's very first BASIC, which he wrote on a night flight from Albuguerque to NY, or some such, for the Altair. 'Sbin a few decades, so ah disremember.

See Ichbiah's Le Nouveaux Magiciens.

Google ichbiah nouveax magiciens

And, get off my lawn! Grrr.

;-)

XP or its parts leaked. Surprisingly Win95 codebase never saw the light of day.

I kind of wish 95 or 98 would leak so we could more effectively patch it. I would love to see a modern TLS implementation running on 9x, it's one of the main barriers to browsing on old machines. I suppose Retrozilla comes close.

Kind of a silly thing to want, and of course "unsafe" for many tasks, but fun for hobbyists nonetheless.

6.22's source code was readily shared by some russians back in 2002 or so, and it was the real deal

I thinks its a 6.00 beta

Midori would be cool to see as well

And FoxPro! :)

And Foxbase, its ancestor.

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