OT -mostly -

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Fri Jun 18 16:57:53 1999

"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Didn't _early_ versions of MS-DOS come with an assembler of sorts? I could
> have sworn they did.

You could do assembly using debug, but it was not what I would consider
"user friendly" :).
Received on Fri Jun 18 1999 - 16:57:53 BST