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• alberto-m
  The official announcement contains many interesting complementary links:https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-...
• martinwoodward
  The technology behind pulling together this is fantastic so def worth reading the links. Joshua's work around doing the OCR of the paper printouts and using the CRC's in the margin to self-error check is great. https://jscarsbrook.me/doshistory/
• neilv
  A guy I worked for owned a Seattle Computer Gazelle that he said "might be the one that DOS was written on".(Maybe he meant the model, rather than the exact serial number? But he was in the PNW, and I understand had been very involved in the early microcomputer scene there, so I wouldn't be surprised.)He was actively using it when he said this, so it still worked at the time.If he still has it, some company that built an empire atop DOS should find some money in the sofa cushions, and make him an offer.
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  shrubble
  Now the debate over whether Gary Kildall’s claim of CP/M code being included in the first version of DOS can be examined in full; since the assembler code is available for scrutiny.
• marlburrow
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