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I wonder how long it'll be before they release the source for the earliest Windows versions. The fact that they still have the source for this very old DOS at l

I wonder how long it'll be before they release the source for the earliest Windows versions. The fact that they still have the source for this very old DOS at least gives hope that they also do for old Windows.

teamsolid 5mo ago
I am sure that there is a lot good material to take inspiration and learning even from the early Windows 3.11.
- SoftTalker 5mo ago
  /s ?
  - AlecSchueler 5mo ago
    Pretty sure it's a bot or simple karma farming operation.
- mycall 5mo ago
  Do a deep dive into how OS/360 formalized to having DOS.
throwaway27448 5mo ago
They waited a couple decades too long for this to be of interest.
GaryBluto 5mo ago
The day they would make Windows 2000 codebase open source (or source available) would be the day I could die happy (although I'd probably be long dead anyways by the time there's a glimmerof chance of it happening). What a beautiful, smooth-running operating system it was.
- londons_explore 5mo ago
  There is a mostly complete leak of it...
- optymizer 5mo ago
  Agreed. It's still my favorite Windows version.
- NitpickLawyer 5mo ago
  Wasn't there a 2000 source leak a while ago? I remember some exploits coming out after the leak.
  - toyg 5mo ago
    Yes but it could not be legally used by anything.
    - avadodin 5mo ago
      OP said source available was acceptable. not even asking for compiler access which is also widely available. Windows has always been more than modular enough for any repurposing and there were licenses that were not tied to specific hardware so you could use them even today. Which is to say no one is stopping you from building a COPILOT.VBX for VisualBasic 3.0.
- greenbit 5mo ago
  Except for "the hive". Remember the hive? Sort of an alternate registry, in addition to the actual registry. Granted, it was pretty invisible, until it got corrupted. I had a win2k machine that was my daily (at home) that was fine until idk about 2006, at which point something happened (muons?) and it would go into some kind of panic state just after bringing up the desktop. Hive corruption. I tried on and off for a couple of years to repair it, no luck. It wasn't just about the files on the HD, it was easy enough to transplant the drive and read/write anything, it was that I really liked the way I had the environment configured. Sure, it was all kind of moot, but it became a kind of personal windmill to resurrect this old thing. In the end, I booted an XP CD in it, and selected 'upgrade', and voila, it was Duncan Idaho, back from the dead. Anyway.. loved win2k, but not a fan of the hive.
protocolture 5mo ago
I imagine its not far off. I get the impression they are almost done with windows as a platform.
WalterBright 5mo ago
It shouldn't be hard to disassemble it.

teamsolid 5mo ago

I am sure that there is a lot good material to take inspiration and learning even from the early Windows 3.11.

SoftTalker 5mo ago
/s ?
- AlecSchueler 5mo ago
  Pretty sure it's a bot or simple karma farming operation.
mycall 5mo ago
Do a deep dive into how OS/360 formalized to having DOS.

throwaway27448 5mo ago

They waited a couple decades too long for this to be of interest.

GaryBluto 5mo ago

The day they would make Windows 2000 codebase open source (or source available) would be the day I could die happy (although I'd probably be long dead anyways by the time there's a glimmerof chance of it happening). What a beautiful, smooth-running operating system it was.

londons_explore 5mo ago
There is a mostly complete leak of it...
optymizer 5mo ago
Agreed. It's still my favorite Windows version.
NitpickLawyer 5mo ago
Wasn't there a 2000 source leak a while ago? I remember some exploits coming out after the leak.
- toyg 5mo ago
  Yes but it could not be legally used by anything.
  - avadodin 5mo ago
    OP said source available was acceptable. not even asking for compiler access which is also widely available. Windows has always been more than modular enough for any repurposing and there were licenses that were not tied to specific hardware so you could use them even today. Which is to say no one is stopping you from building a COPILOT.VBX for VisualBasic 3.0.
greenbit 5mo ago
Except for "the hive". Remember the hive? Sort of an alternate registry, in addition to the actual registry. Granted, it was pretty invisible, until it got corrupted. I had a win2k machine that was my daily (at home) that was fine until idk about 2006, at which point something happened (muons?) and it would go into some kind of panic state just after bringing up the desktop. Hive corruption. I tried on and off for a couple of years to repair it, no luck. It wasn't just about the files on the HD, it was easy enough to transplant the drive and read/write anything, it was that I really liked the way I had the environment configured. Sure, it was all kind of moot, but it became a kind of personal windmill to resurrect this old thing. In the end, I booted an XP CD in it, and selected 'upgrade', and voila, it was Duncan Idaho, back from the dead. Anyway.. loved win2k, but not a fan of the hive.

protocolture 5mo ago

I imagine its not far off. I get the impression they are almost done with windows as a platform.

WalterBright 5mo ago

It shouldn't be hard to disassemble it.