Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderThe README for 2.0 contains an interesting apology to OEMs: > The user manual contains some significant errors. Most of these are due to last minute changes to achieve a greater degree of compatibility with IBM's implementation of MS-DOS (PC DOS). This includes the use of "\" instead of "/" as the path separator, and "/" instead of "-" as the switch character. For transporting of batch files across machines, Microsoft encourages the use of "\" and "/" respectively in…
Asynchronous I/O figures in prominently in Windows NT but I just assumed it wasn't ever thought about in DOS (being single-tasking and single-user). I was really surprised to see[0]: Each driver in the chain defines two entry points; the strategy routine and the interrupt routine. The 2.0 DOS does not really make use of two entry points (it simply calls strategy, then immediately calls interrupt). This dual entry point scheme is designed to facilitate future multi-tasking versions of MS-DOS. In…
Discussed yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097661
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 564
- Total comments
- 218
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-09-28 | The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0First breakout · Best thread | plurby | 328 | 111 |
| 2018-09-29 | The original sources of MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 are Open Source now | tobltobs | 29 | 5 |
| 2023-09-06 | MS-DOS v1.25 and v2.0 is now open-sourceLatest 20+ point return | mdwalters | 207 | 102 |