Early source code for Microsoft's MS-DOS and Word will be preserved in a museum

Microsoft announced today that it's partnering with the Computer History Museum to make the source code for early versions of MS-DOS and Word for Windows available to the public for the first time. The released code will be part of an ongoing project by the museum to collect and preserve some of the most widely used software of the early days of computing, and make them accessible to developers.

Microsoft's MS-DOS began when the company was approached by IBM to work on a project codenamed "Chess." Microsoft originally provided a BASIC language interpreter to IBM, but then was asked to make an operating system. The company ended up making two versions, licensing PC-DOS to IBM, and reserving MS-DOS for other PC manufacturers. Word for...

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