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Where did it emerge from? No mention… Sometimes the story of how it was acquired it just as interesting.
by TedDoesntTalk 3y ago
Where did it emerge from? No mention… Sometimes the story of how it was acquired it just as interesting.
- kjs3 3y agoSometimes people don't want others to know how they got it.
- qingcharles 3y agoThis has happened infuriatingly often lately. Some disk image from history just suddenly turns up on github with little knowledge of how it got there. These are 8" disks, so someone not only found the disks but had the setup to read the disks and dump the binaries.
- polpo 3y agoThe person who imaged the disks commented on this video exploring 86-DOS 0.11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7T5euID1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd7T5euID1E (It's a neat video by the way – he shows how 86-DOS would be used in that state back then by creating a Z80 "Hello World" program in CP-M, copying it over with RDCPM, translating it to 8086 assembly with TRANS, tweaking the source with EDLIN, assembling with ASM and HEX2BIN, and running it.)
- lproven 3y agoI give some detail in my article on the find: https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/05/oldest_ancestor_of_msdos_recovered/ https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/05/oldest_ancestor_of_ms...