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Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Tea@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.zip⁩

https://www.gatesnotes.com/home/home-page-topic/reader/microsoft-original-source-code

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  • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m good…Thanks

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    • Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      why would I celebrate the company that makes my least favourite software?

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      • hitmyspot@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Because, while they did so in a scummy wayz they revolutionized home computing and office computing.

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  • SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So this code likely generated the very first blue screen of death.

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    • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What is this “blue” you mention? That’s not green Or amber!

      Seriously though, errors in native code back then would either freeze the system or just spontaneously reboot, either way no time to display a reason. (Although the BASIC interpreter would at least try to say what happened with errors in BASIC code.)

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  • giacomo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    wow, that website, its just wow

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I think they overdid it a bit.

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  • SplashJackson@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I hear they facilitate genocide

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  • Lojcs@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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