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That's valid feedback. There is no clock, but there maybe should be. In this case, yes, Jeff and I had to PUSH. And that's a hassle. I'll ask around.

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This is fantastic work, thanks. Hmm, what else... let's see... Xenix also really, really wants to be free! What a magnificent piece of forgotten computer history it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

That actually would be pretty wild.

I appreciate your hard work on open sourcing this!

If you’re taking requests I’d love to see MS-DOS 5.0 or at least QBasic next.

Yep, I need to get 3.3 and then do 5, 6

Legend. Keep being the Bob Ross of IT. Love what you do. Thank you.

Ironically those words capture how those of us who bought a computer with DOS 4.00 felt about it. :D

But this is really great.

True, I don't know when Qbasic (and Edit?) went into dos (according to Wikipedia they were on 5.0)

DOS 5 was when I really got into computers. I spent hours pouring through the included manual learning all the shell commands and learning how to write .BAT files. Then I discovered QBasic and it changed everything.

It's fantastic work you've done. As someone who works at a older software company (founded early 80s), I'm sad that there isn't a push internally for us to make our old software source available, or even just the binaries available!

What sort of tactics did you use to convince them? Maybe I can apply them to where I work too...

Windows 95 OSR5 - Open Source Release. Someday soon?

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