2 Dec
2005
2 Dec
'05
9:42 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Is that really true? AFAIK, MS still packs MASM 6.1x
with their Windows
DDK.
Well it is not standard with the windows I have.
And there are some PD programs, it seems to do similar
stuff.
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.
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.
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
** and afford!