Re: bootstrapping from COPY CON
Kragen Javier Sitaker <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:03:08AM -0400, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote: > The self-hosted tools, however, were much better than COPY CON. I > imagine Tim Paterson wrote the first version of DEBUG.COM using a > cross-assembler hosted on a CP/M machine, which was presumably written > using an 8080 assembler, and if you had to bootstrap an 8080 assembler > on CP/M, you could certainly have used [DDT.COM][0], which included > assembly and disassembly facilities similar to DEBUG's. (And DDT.COM > was written by, I guess, Gary Kildall on some DEC machine.) (Turns out ASM.COM was distributed with CP/M too, and thus presumably also written by Gary on a DEC box.) Kragen -- To unsubscribe: http://lists.canonical.org/mailman/listinfo/kragen-discuss