It’s mind-boggling to think of the growth from those days when Microsoft had under 100 employees and a Microsoft product (MS-DOS) had less than 300KB (yes, kilobytes) of source code. From those roots we’ve grown in a few short decades to become a company that has sold more than 200 million licenses of Windows 8 and has over 1 billion people using Microsoft Office. Great things come from modest beginnings, and the great Microsoft devices and services of the future will probably start small, just as MS-DOS and Word for Windows did.
I could have done it in 200kb.
I feel deprived that the article only linked to other articles about MS releasing code. No code to be found.Did they print it on paper and frame it in a physical museum or something?
Microsoft's on site museum on their Redwood campus is pretty awesome.Oh, none of you have been there? Well, you'll just have to take my word for it.HAHAHAHAHA PIG FUCKERS.
Microsoft's programmers may have been creating some of the biggest and most important software titles back in the 1980s, but that didn’t stop them from joking around when crafting the code that powered them.Yesterday, Microsoft and the Computer History Museum released the source code for early versions of Microsoft’s MS-DOS and Word programs, which one developer ciphered through and found hidden jokes.Lines like “coded inline because we’re Gods,” were hidden throughout, the f-bomb gets dropped a few times, and programmers commented on their “dumb users.” All of the unusual comments can be seen below.
