• Codilingus@piefed.socialEnglish
      23 days

      IIRC they contracted some devs for a one time payment to make it, then proceeded to laugh to the bank while strangling the market over the years.

      • Thorry@feddit.orgEnglish
        23 days

        To be fair, there is a whole lot more to selling software than just making it. There’s this myth out there if you just build the right software at the right time, success is guaranteed. But in reality all of the success stories from the past had many competitors, often with better made software. There’s many factors that go into it, luck is a big factor and upfront cash is also a big one (especially nepotism is a common theme).

        • Test_Tickles@lemmy.worldEnglish
          22 days

          Ya, it takes a massive amount of time and effort to make sure you are born into a family where your mother is on the board of the one and only client big enough to set the standard for the rest of the industry.

    • Gork@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      23 days

      The printout could have said 80085 but they chose to not be cool.

    • vrek@programming.devEnglish
      23 days

      I can 1/2 read asm, know c/c++/c# and a bunch of other languages but how do I even read this?

        • vrek@programming.devEnglish
          23 days

          He was a business God, not so sure of programming God, more like surrounding himself with programming gods.

          But seriously, how do you read this, is it like a representation of how the memory should be at a specific point in time? I’m guessing blank spaces would be undefined then?

          • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
            23 days

            That’s just the cover page, you can see the source files here.

            The print out is “bundle_2”, while the actual compliable source is in “86DOS.A86”, you can see where the code starts and the header ends.

            • vrek@programming.devEnglish
              23 days

              Ah, the bundle_2 link looks at lot more readable and understandable. That said it’s not even 530am yet here so I’ll need a little while to wake up before I can try to understand it.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23 days

    Wonder if they’ll start releasing later versions so we can see their attempts to kill Lotus.

    • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
      23 days

      I’m sure the Microsoft lawyers went over it thoroughly first. They are very concerned with licenses for things that are to be open-sourced.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      23 days

      Why would CP/M have a dog in the fight? They were a competitor and, if I understand my history right, the wrong horse.

      And By the PC-DOS guys, you mean IBM?

  • blinfabian@feddit.nlEnglish
    23 days

    please opensource windows 11 next. i bet when OpenWindows 11 comes out it will be wayyy better

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23 days

      We’re already at the point where Windows programs sometimes run better on Linux with a compatibility layer (WINE/Proton) than they do natively. The stuff that doesn’t run is mostly games ladened with kernel-level DRM that Linux (rightfully) can’t emulate.

      Linux even runs old Windows programs better than Windows itself, and long-term compatibility is supposed to be one of Windows’ biggest selling points.

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      23 days

      We’re already on 16, we just spell the Windows part differently. We spell it “suse leap”