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You could do the same thing on your 286. PCs came with DEBUG.COM, which does the same things.
by Narishma 5y ago
You could do the same thing on your 286. PCs came with DEBUG.COM, which does the same things.
- SavantIdiot 5y agoI didn't know that until about a decade later, unfortunately! People forget that in 1984 information wasn't a click away. The problem with owning a Hong Kong-made 286 clone in 1984, and using pirated software, is that it was extremely hard to learn things. I was limited by the books at my local "Waldenbooks" computer section, which was about 20 books. Computer shopper and Byte magazine were kinda helpful, but I learned very, very slowly. It wasn't until I entered college that I started learning rapidly, but the focus wasn't on PCs (it was still MTS mainframes). It took until my first job writing 16-bit drivers that I finally started learning the nuts and bolts of MSDOS.