One of the people who helped archive the MS-DOS 4.0 source code, @starfrost, started writing an extensive and interesting story about the history behind 4.0 and the archived Multitasking DOS (MT-DOS) builds: https://starfrost.net/blog/001-mdos4-part-1/index.html

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The history of Multitasking MS-DOS

Microsoft releases source code for MS-DOS 4.0 (and Multitasking DOS)

A decade after releasing the source code for MS-DOS 1.1 and MS-DOS 2.0, Microsoft has open sourced a (slightly) more recent operating system: MS-DOS 4.0.
First released in 1988, you can now download the source code from GitHub, where it’s been shared under the MIT license.
Of course there’s not much reason to actually run MS-DOS on […]

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Microsoft releases source code for MS-DOS 4.0 (and Multitasking DOS) - Liliputing

Microsoft releases source code for MS-DOS 4.0 (and Multitasking DOS)

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Código-fonte do dia: MS-DOS 4.0 - Retrópolis

Há muito tempo atrás, a Microsoft liberou o código-fonte dos MS-DOS 1.1 e 2.0; e muitos historiadores e entusiastas do mundo Intel 8088 e Intel 8086 ficaram felizes porque podiam estudar como o sistema operacional que mudou o mundo foi feito. No entanto, Connor "Starfrost" Hyde não estava satisfeito com isso. Estudando sobre o Multitasking

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