OT -mostly -

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Jun 18 18:12:22 1999

On Fri, 18 Jun 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.
>
> Zane
>

Sell, the copies of PCDOS 1.0 & 1.1, Compaq DOS 1.11 & 1.12, and MSDOS
2.11 do not.
                                                 - don
Received on Fri Jun 18 1999 - 18:12:22 BST