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Neither DOS nor Windows had any compiler included. DOS did have a BASIC interpreter, later they did away even with that (with Windows 2000 I think). In Linux y
by dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago
Neither DOS nor Windows had any compiler included. DOS did have a BASIC interpreter, later they did away even with that (with Windows 2000 I think).
In Linux you had a rich range of compilers, interpreters and other development tools, right in your distro. I'm talking about late nineties here. The two were absolutely incomparable in this aspect. Although, I have to admit, I preferred Borland's documentation to Linux man pages.
- pjmlp 9y agoJust like most commercial OSes, including proprietary UNIXes. Other professions buy their tools. In any case, most MS-DOS applications were written in Assembly and one could use debug for creating COM executables. GW-Basic + debug was already a big step forward from using monitor applications with hexdumps on ZX Spectrum and C64.