2 Dec
2005
2 Dec
'05
9:14 p.m.
On 12/2/2005 at 12:00 PM woodelf wrote:
You know it takes a good bit of digging to find basic
8088 software,
since windows has come out
since "link,lib,masm" are no longer around. So get your older aps now
while you can.
Is that really true? AFAIK, MS still packs MASM 6.1x with their Windows
DDK.
And there are some PD programs, it seems to do similar 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.
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.
Of course, if you're using anything less than a 386, you're pretty much
stuck with 16-bit mode and segment headaches.
Cheers,
Chuck