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wow, they had to OCR it back in from paper printouts > This source code is old enough that it hadn’t been stored digitally. “A dedicated team of historians and preservationists led by Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini,” calling itself the “DOS Disassembly Group,” painstakingly transcribed and scanned in code from paper printouts provided by Paterson. This process was made even more difficult because modern OCR software strugg…
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.
I am sure that there is a lot good material to take inspiration and learning even from the early Windows 3.11.
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.
I am sure that there is a lot good material to take inspiration and learning even from the early Windows 3.11.
wow, they had to OCR it back in from paper printouts > This source code is old enough that it hadn’t been stored digitally. “A dedicated team of historians and preservationists led by Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini,” calling itself the “DOS Disassembly Group,” painstakingly transcribed and scanned in code from paper printouts provided by Paterson. This process was made even more difficult because modern OCR software strugg…
Yet another case where text printed on paper outlived any digital storage.
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Yet another case where text printed on paper outlived any digital storage.
Seems like it was never digitally stored in the first place, and the printed text was barely readable due to age. Not really a big win for paper.
wow, they had to OCR it back in from paper printouts > This source code is old enough that it hadn’t been stored digitally. “A dedicated team of historians and preservationists led by Yufeng Gao and Rich Cini,” calling itself the “DOS Disassembly Group,” painstakingly transcribed and scanned in code from paper printouts provided by Paterson. This process was made even more difficult because modern OCR software strugg…
Yet another case where text printed on paper outlived any digital storage.
barely
It sounds like this printout has deteriorated badly and was barely readable.
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.
It is wonderful how early years of modern computing was brilliant. We treated machines as they really are: machines. Performance, creativity, science..., all possible to make a 386 machine work. Nowadays is all about libraries, virtualization, [bad] code over [bad] code over [bad] code..., I dont like it.