This is a rare look at the tech giant's first operating system
  • helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41 minutes

    Someone will probably find a massive vulnerability that affects every version of windows, because why not?

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    Wonder if they’ll start releasing later versions so we can see their attempts to kill Lotus.

  • blinfabian@feddit.nlEnglish
    3 hours

    please opensource windows 11 next. i bet when OpenWindows 11 comes out it will be wayyy better

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2 hours

      We’re already on 16, we just spell the Windows part differently. We spell it “suse leap”

    • Codilingus@piefed.socialEnglish
      10 hours

      IIRC they contracted some devs for a one time payment to make it, then proceeded to laugh to the bank while strangling the market over the years.

      • Thorry@feddit.orgEnglish
        4 hours

        To be fair, there is a whole lot more to selling software than just making it. There’s this myth out there if you just build the right software at the right time, success is guaranteed. But in reality all of the success stories from the past had many competitors, often with better made software. There’s many factors that go into it, luck is a big factor and upfront cash is also a big one (especially nepotism is a common theme).

    • Gork@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      12 hours

      The printout could have said 80085 but they chose to not be cool.

    • vrek@programming.devEnglish
      10 hours

      I can 1/2 read asm, know c/c++/c# and a bunch of other languages but how do I even read this?

        • vrek@programming.devEnglish
          9 hours

          He was a business God, not so sure of programming God, more like surrounding himself with programming gods.

          But seriously, how do you read this, is it like a representation of how the memory should be at a specific point in time? I’m guessing blank spaces would be undefined then?

          • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
            3 hours

            That’s just the cover page, you can see the source files here.

            The print out is “bundle_2”, while the actual compliable source is in “86DOS.A86”, you can see where the code starts and the header ends.

            • vrek@programming.devEnglish
              2 hours

              Ah, the bundle_2 link looks at lot more readable and understandable. That said it’s not even 530am yet here so I’ll need a little while to wake up before I can try to understand it.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10 hours

      I’m sure the Microsoft lawyers went over it thoroughly first. They are very concerned with licenses for things that are to be open-sourced.