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Windows 3.x File Manager Open Sourced

posted by chromas on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the still-better-than-windows-8 dept.

SomeGuy writes:

The Verge is reporting:

Microsoft is releasing the source code for its original Windows File Manager from nearly 28 years ago. While it's a relic from the past, you can still compile the source code Microsoft has released and run the app on Windows 10 today.

The source code is available on GitHub, and is maintained by Microsoft veteran Craig Wittenberg under the MIT license. Wittenberg copied the File Manager code from Windows NT 4 back in 2007, and has been maintaining it before open sourcing it recently. It's a testament to the backward compatibility of Windows itself, especially that this was originally included in Windows more than 20 years ago.

A port of Microsoft's File Manger made its first appearance in OS/2 1.1 and then became the primary file manager in Windows 3.0.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:51PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @02:51PM (#664962)

    I'm trying to remember back to the bad old days. I remember that Windows 3.x was a horrible kludge and more a curiosity than anything else. Then we got Trumpet Winsock and Mosiac and eventually Netscape, and that was pretty much all I started Windows for.

    Did Windows 3.x really have no filesystem abstraction? I've never done any programming for 3.x.

    I guess I should grab that source code and build on my arcade boot (Windows 8.1, tile menu makes a great arcade interface) and see if ext2ifs enables it to read ext2/3/4 volumes.