Re: The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM Bug Hunt

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:38:05 -0300
Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

John McCue <jmccue@reddwf.jmcunx.com> writes:
 

Followups changed to: comp.misc
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In comp.misc Kerr-Mudd, John <admin@127.0.0.1> wrote:

On Mon, 24 Feb 2025 01:03:51 -0000 (UTC)
Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
 

The DOS 3.3 SYS.COM Bug Hunt
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From:
<https://www.brutman.com/Adventures_In_Code/DOS_33_SYS_Bug_Hunt/
DOS_33_SYS_Bug_Hunt.html>

 
Now I'm suffering from acute nostalgia.

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You and me both, DOS 3.3 on a 286, fun times :)

 
I never used DOS as a programmer, so it wasn't nostalgic to me, but I
enjoyed seeing how simpler things were back then and how programs like
debug could help you to see what was going on.  I was reading about 6502
assembly recently and I became very interested in getting closer to that

Raspberry Pi sort of wanted to revive that simpler times, but it only
works with a higher level language (Python); (ARM assembly is notoriously
obscure).

simplicity.  The booklet author remarked that modern x86 assembly isn't
really meant for programmers, but compilers.  I had never really thought
of that, but it made a lot of sense to me.  So maybe I should indeed
look into an older, simpler machine to enjoy the low level of things.

I do 8086 programming.
--
Bah, and indeed Humbug.