MS-DOS has been Open-Sourced!

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• randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I gotta be honest, I love his deadpan dry ass thumbnails.

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  • PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    His voice isn’t much different!

    I watch his videos because it’s nice to have an insider view of what was the formative years of Microsoft’s assimilation creation of a common office workspace. The anecdotes are deliciously 90’s, the openness is refreshing, and the implementation detail is quite interesting.

    My other half likes the videos because he has that quite monotone voice, with quite an even canter and the odd lingering pause that can send her to sleep.

    Win win.

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  • GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Dollar-store Arnold says eat more cigars.

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I thought this was a specific, unpopular version. The versions people actually used are still closed. Did that changee?

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  • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, still the same.

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• ConfusedPossum@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What are the consequences of this

  Like does this mean they could develop an app where you just have a library with all those nostalgic legacy games

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• TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wonder what the reason was for so much being in raw assembly when C existed. A basic library/API would be one of the first things I'd tackle in an OS. Move on to a higher level as soon as you're able.

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  • palordrolap@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Compilers were much less complex back then and didn't do a great deal of optimisation. Also hardware was slow, so your compiled code, which wasn't necessarily optimal either before or after the compilation phase, was at least half as fast as you wanted it to be.

    If you wanted speed, you hand-rolled assembly.

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  • agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because Ryan wrote it like this 10 years ago and nobody bothered to rewrite it in C.

    Back then, I’d guess most developers were relatively fluent in assembly, so if there’s only a small change to make, they’d just change the assembly and move on.

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• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah but 6.22 when

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