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MS-DOS also came with a simple 16-bit assembler ('debug'), though I guess that could be seen as cheating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug_(command) http://en
by pmjordan 16y ago
MS-DOS also came with a simple 16-bit assembler ('debug'), though I guess that could be seen as cheating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug_(command) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug_(command)
I remember typing in simple assembly listings for utilities to use in batch files from books & magazines. (generally saved as headerless .com files) Unfortunately, I didn't try hard enough to find out how they worked at the time, which probably delayed my programming abilities by a couple of years.
- kragen 16y agoThe question says you have just COMMAND.COM, MSDOS.SYS, and IO.SYS. One day Nirva Toomish entered the ACM Programming Competition. But the languages allowed were Pascal and something else, neither of which he knew. But the machine had DEBUG.COM on it, so he wrote his programs in DEBUG.COM's assembler, and solved several (all?) of the problems. The problem came when the proctors asked to see the source code. He used DEBUG.COM to disassemble his programs, but they were not satisfied with that.