12 Oct
2006
12 Oct
'06
9:33 a.m.
Jules Richardson wrote:
Alas I got to use Crap-dows for internet and a few
games.
PS. I hindsite why did they not have the time of day clock set to some
rational freq like 30 HZ?
That's interesting - given the evolution of both
DOS and the IT
industry, I'm surprised that at least parts weren't written in some
other language (e.g. C) by the time version 6 came out.
How do we know it was not cross-assembled?
CP/M has a very interesting development history, so DOS may have.
With all the stuff I have seen on the web about old OS's,
source code is not the only thing needed. How it was bootstraped
on the original computer is important too.
Better grab
the tools too - linker asembler ect.
Nah, Freedos works just fine for everything
I've so far tried it for...