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This Historic OS Was Not Stored Digitally, So a Fleet of Historians Have Transcribed the Source Code From Ancient Print Outs in Order to Make It Open Source: The Manuscript Reality of Early Software Preservation
Microsoft recently open-sourced 86-DOS 1.00 on GitHub, but they did not extract it from a forgotten floppy disk. A dedicated team of historians had to manually transcribe the operating system’s source