On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:51:39 -0800 (PST)
Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Was it ever standard with Windows or DOS? If
memory serves,
it was always an add-on package. IIRC, MASM 1.0 was abouit
$100, which didn't make it much of a bargain.
MASM was never standard with PC-DOS or Windoze.
But it WAS included by many OEMs with MS-DOS (for example
Toshiba T300).
It is included with Visual Studio.
(Where does Microsoft get their product names???)
I have an old version of MASM installed on my HP-95lx palmtop.
LIB and LINK
were packaged with DOS,
was originally included with PC-DOS, but stopped being
included
(around 5.0?)
also EXE2BIN.EXE
And of course, always debug. People used to distribute small
binaries as debug scripts ('pipe this textfile into debug and
save')