Possible PUTR bug?

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Sat May 11 21:31:51 CDT 2019


On Sat, 11 May 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> Add to that, that really good "C" compilers for the x80/x86 took some
> time to mature.  My first C on an 8086 was Lattice; compiled on a
> floppy-based system.

DeSmet was in my price range,  . . .

> But then Microsoft MASM 1.0 was terrible in its
> own right as well--the list of errata was quite long.

"To make a file of that list, you are going to need more disk space."

> I remember mumbling to myself "that's not what I wrote!".

Version 5.0? was the first to come with materials that could even be 
called "documentation".
But, I had been playing confusedly with MASM 1.0 since the day that it 
came out.




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