Old MS-DOS & WIN Software

[woodelf]

Chuck Guzis wrote:

>Is that really true?  AFAIK, MS still packs MASM 6.1x with their Windows
>DDK.  
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Well it is not standard with the windows I have.

>And there are some PD programs, it seems to do similar stuff.
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I found the PD stuff.

>Early 8088 stuff wasn't worth writing home about.  MASM 1.0 was a slow
>buggy disaster, and Lattice C (sold by MS before they came out with their
>own)  wasn't much better.   As far as I'm concerned, MASM 6.13 is about the
>best version ever produced, even if it does require DPMI to run.
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>For that matter, I prefer using flat 32-bit mode under an extender.   No
>worrying about segment boundaries, 64K array sizes, etc.  Makes life much
>easier--and runs faster on most platforms than 16-bit mode does. 
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>Of course, if you're using anything less than a 386, you're pretty much
>stuck with 16-bit mode and segment headaches.
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Mind you if somebody came  up with a better OS when the 386's came out, 
would we have windows
today? ** Well I  did say  8088, so that is more on topic, as I wanted 
to play around with small - C for the
8080 and cross compile for a FPGA home brew computer.
To get on topic for all the people that have a Z80 and CP/M check this 
page out.
http://www.schorn.ch/cpm/intro.html    SPL is new language for the z80 
and some replacement
CP/M software too.

>Cheers,
>Chuck
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** and afford!