26 Aug
2014
26 Aug
'14
11:07 p.m.
As I understand it, there were IBM-branded versions of the Microsoft Macro Assembler(MASM)
prior to version 4. I seem to recall seeing one way back when, in the usual small IBM
binder in a slip cover box.
What version(s), if any, would have been roughly contemporary with IBM DOS 3.3? Did the
MASM version numbers track with DOS releases, or were they independent? I think that I
would like to get my hands on one of these. An original copy would be preferable; scans
and images would be helpful if I can't find an original.
I have an original IBM DOS 3.3 distribution, still in shrink wrap. I understand that some
developer-oriented tools were removed from the 3.3 distribution, and instead came on a
utilities diskette with the DOS 3.30 Technical Reference. I see a listing for the book on
eBay which I may buy, but it doesn't include the diskettes. If originals or images of
the diskettes are available, I'd like to acquire them.
Were there any other IBM-branded development tools for the PC around the time of DOS 3.3?
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
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27 Aug
27 Aug
2:22 p.m.
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Mark J. Blair wrote:
As I understand it, there were IBM-branded versions of
the Microsoft
Macro Assembler(MASM) prior to version 4. I seem to recall seeing one
way back when, in the usual small IBM binder in a slip cover box.
I had switched from PC-DOS 1.00 to PC-DOS 1.10 before I got a copy of
IBM branded MASM 1.0
Continued using that until Microsoft branded MASM 5.0 came out, although I
had copies of the others. MS MASM 5.0 was the first one where calling the
accompanying printed materials "documentation" would not be clear criminal
fraud.
The instruction set reference of 5.0 and above was particularly handy.
What version(s), if any, would have been roughly
contemporary with IBM
DOS 3.3? Did the MASM version numbers track with DOS releases, or were
they independent?
INDEPENDENT.
However, early versions of PC-DOS included LINK.EXE and EXE2BIN.EXE, and
thorugh appendix. At some point 3.00?, 3.20? 3.30?, they stopped
including LINK and EXE2BIN, and spun off the appendices as a separate
product called "PC-DOS Technical Reference Manual" (although early
versions of that still had "Appendix" page numbering)
Unfortunately, the early versions (2.0?) of LINK and EXE2BIN invoked an
INT21h function 30h to check DOS version, and would therefore choke on
later DOS versions. You could invoke DOS 5.00 and above SETVER, or, . . .
one of the early exercises in debugging in my MASM class was to modify
EXE2BIN.EXE to disable the version checking code.
I think that I would like to get my hands on one of
these. An original copy would be preferable; scans and images would be
helpful if I can't find an original.
last year, in FPUIB.
I have an original IBM DOS 3.3 distribution, still in
shrink wrap. I
understand that some developer-oriented tools were removed from the 3.3
distribution, and instead came on a utilities diskette with the DOS 3.30
Technical Reference. I see a listing for the book on eBay which I may
buy, but it doesn't include the diskettes. If originals or images of the
diskettes are available, I'd like to acquire them.
Were there any other IBM-branded development tools for the PC around the
time of DOS 3.3?
back in the dawn days, there was also IBM rebranded MS Pascal,
BASIC, COBOL, and Fortran. The IBM Fortran 1.0 was spectacularly
bad - compiled output from it was fairly consistently slower than
the interpreted BASIC.
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