Most of it is source code in C, but there are also text documents, x86 assembler-language source files, executable tools, batch files, and more. In the root directory there is a “readme” file that briefly explains the rest of the contents. The 7 MB zip file contains 1021 files in 33 folders. This material is © Copyright by Microsoft.
With the permission of Microsoft Corporation, the Computer History Museum is pleased to make available, for non-commercial use, the source code of Word for Windows version 1.1a as it was on January 10, 1991. There’s only one way to understand the magic in detail: read the code. How did Word accomplish so much with so little? Remember, this was a time when a typical personal computer might have an 8 Mhz processor, 1 megabyte of memory, a 20 megabyte hard disk, and a floppy disk drive. But it was also a stunning technical achievement, and its ability to run on ordinary PCs created the first popular vanguard of the new graphics-oriented style of document preparation. Part of its success was due to Microsoft’s marketing acumen. These license terms are an agreement between Microsoft Clearly there was something extraordinary about Word for Windows. The market shares of various word processors in the 80's and 90's.
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