How Not To Release Historic Source Code
owl writes:
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/how-not-to-release-historic-source-code/
This is how to not do it:
GitHub
Don't get me wrong, it's absolutely brilliant that Microsoft was able to release a fairly complete (minus DOSSHELL) source code for MS-DOS 4.00 or 4.01 (see below). As much as it was hated, DOS 4.0 was an important milestone and DOS 5.0 was much more similar to DOS 4.0 than not. This source code will be an excellent reference of modern-ish DOS until Microsoft officially releases the long ago leaked MS-DOS 6.0 source code. The source code includes all required build tools, which makes building it (compared to many other source releases) extremely easy.
But please please don't mutilate historic source code by shoving it into (stupid) git.
Now read why....
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