>After playing with BeOS a while something occurred to me. Does anyone remember
>at what point operating systems stopped coming with development tools? I'm
>remembering the commodore 64 that came with Basic, and if you typed in the
>assembler from the manual, you could (at least in theory) write proffessional
>quality assembly language programs worthy of being sold to others.
Well, CP/M came with a good assembler, MS-DOS didn't. That's where
I draw the line in my head. Admittedly the version of ASM that came with
CP/M wasn't awfully featurefull, but it did work. And you got documentation
for writing programs with CP/M. And admittedly MS-DOS commonly was
installed with some version of MS-BASIC, but I (personally) don't
categorize that as a "real" development tool.
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Received on Fri Jun 18 1999 - 16:10:31 BST