alt Hacker NewsThat is one thing that was nice about DOS, you where close to the machine. I never fully got machine language, but it was fun trying.
IIRC, debug.com could be used to create programs using machine lang.
That is one thing that was nice about DOS, you where close to the machine. I never fully got machine language, but it was fun trying.
IIRC, debug.com could be used to create programs using machine lang.
Yes, it was a quite bare bones experience when compared to TASM and MASM, and only worked for COM executable, but it did work.
The reasoning being that COM files were a plain memory dump starting at offset 100H, thus you would type the code in memory and then dump it.