18 Jun
1999
18 Jun
'99
4:57 p.m.
"Zane H. Healy" wrote:
You could do assembly using debug, but it was not what I would consider
"user friendly" :).
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.