History painstakingly preserved.

For students of early PC history, this isn’t even the first piece of 86-DOS history that has been newly rediscovered this ...

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code ...

DOS, Microsoft is releasing the earliest known source code listings – transcribed from yellowed continuous printouts.

Doing software archaeology can be a harrowing task, as rarely do you find complete snapshots of particular versions of ...

Computer engineers and programmers have long relied on reverse engineering as a way to copy the functionality of a computer program without copying that program’s copyright-protected code directly.

Through the looking glass: A half-century-old magnetic tape containing the only known copy of Unix v4 has been found and recovered by the University of Utah's School of Computing. The nine-track 3M ...

Patent infringement cases involving electrical or computer technology often require companies to divulge one of their most closely guarded valuables: the computer source code that makes their products ...