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They wrote a this before they had a good C tool chain. Microsoft didn't have a C compiler until 1985 which was a repackaged version of Lattice C.
by ok123456 3y ago
They wrote a this before they had a good C tool chain. Microsoft didn't have a C compiler until 1985 which was a repackaged version of Lattice C.
- nottorp 3y agoAlso the first IBM pc had what, 64kb of ram? It makes sense to do hand optimized assembler for that. Segmented architecture has nothing to do with it, there was support for it in any Compiler that targeted the platform. And besides, it was how you did things back then, no surprises there.