Teaching Children Programming and Linux

Terrence Enger tenger-P1ovA8G34VBEfu+5ix1nRw at public.gmane.org
Thu Jul 17 14:55:14 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 10:31 -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> [big snip]
> I've barely used MSDOS.  I was under the impression that if you were
> writing .com files, you were writing in machine language, not
> assembler.  Isn't that all debug.exe allows you?

Ah! a memory test.  From an increasingly old memory ...

debug.exe allowed mnemoninc opcodes and register names.  I think you had to keep track of everything else yourself.

Cheers,
Terry.


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