Yesterday, Microsoft and Computer History Museum has released source codes for 1980’s MS DOS 1.1 and 2.0; and Word for Windows 1.1a. Some enthusiastic developers have wasted no time to dive in to the code and one of such developer Leon Zandman found a number of jokes and brags hidden in the comments. Some of them include “Coded inline because we’re gods” and “dumb user is using a Novell Network!” Moreover, there is frequent usage of the word “hack” in comments, throughout the code. If you too want to have some fun, check out all of the comments that Zandman discovered right below.
'… the other registers are free to f*ck with' #msdos #source pic.twitter.com/R5Lc0ttcDk
— Leon Zandman (@leonzandman) March 25, 2014
Another_fucking_out_of_range_jump #msdos #source pic.twitter.com/IaVZK6qIgE
— Leon Zandman (@leonzandman) March 25, 2014
/* dumb user is using a Novell Network! */ #microsoft #word #source pic.twitter.com/2XZ2RnP1YE
— Leon Zandman (@leonzandman) March 25, 2014
What a hack!! Bad fart!? 😀 #MSDOS #V2.0 #Source pic.twitter.com/iaCaiAqf7J
— Leon Zandman (@leonzandman) March 25, 2014
Cheap, gruesome, rough, shameful hacks… They got 'em all! #MSDOS #sourcecode 🙂 pic.twitter.com/EGU9A9ck09
— Leon Zandman (@leonzandman) March 25, 2014
'… because we're gods' #Microsoft #Word #source pic.twitter.com/1SkKmjqvKP
— Leon Zandman (@leonzandman) March 25, 2014
Poetry by Bill "Shake" Spear, preserved verbatim for eternity… 🙂 #msdos #source pic.twitter.com/pcAXjocZKj
— Leon Zandman (@leonzandman) March 25, 2014