As I continue to produce new gadgets, but have limited time, I find it difficult to update my blog with posts about my creations. Instead, I’ve created a “My Projects” page that I will continue to update with old and new projects.
Currently, it’s fairly bare. But give me some time and this will become my central source of all of my projects.
Sometimes, I like to take a gander at Github‘s trending repos. Today, whilst doing such, I was surprised to see a Microsoft app titled Terminal, available as a fully open-sourced Git repo.
It wasn’t what I had originally thought it was–either Command Prompt or PowerShell. But, it had me wondering what other apps were open-source? So, I went a-browsing!
MS-DOS 1.25, 2.0, and 4.0 source-code are available on Github. This archived piece of history is written in primarily assembly, with a little C, so it’s not for the faint of heart.
I’ve actually never heard of this one, but apparently it is a “Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js” written by Microsoft. Who knew!? It’s abandoned, and it’s domain is for sale, but it’s source code is up on Github.
This is the Calculator, as in the latest version that comes installed with Windows 10/11. I am surprised to see this treasure open-sourced. Check it out here. This one is a C++ beauty.
Another shocker, the latest and greatest Microsoft PowerShell is available open-source on Github. This command line utility comes preinstalled on Windows, but call also be installed on Linux and Mac.
I kind of already knew/assumed this was open-source, but it’s still cool to see. You can plunder through the huge repo on Github.