Human Folly about “MS-DOS”

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Turbo Pascal on CPM MSX DOS and MS DOS (pascal.hansotten.com):
#history of Turbo #Pascal on CP/M and #MS-DOS. #CPM #retrocomputing
on 02026-06-12
Tp302 (web.archive.org):
Turbo #Pascal 3 for #MS-DOS. #retrocomputing
on 02026-06-10
(pcjs.org):
Turbo #Pascal 3.01a for #MS-DOS in #emulation. 276K. #retrocomputing #small-is-beautiful
on 02026-06-10
Freecompiler (digitalmars.com):
The old Zortech C and C++ #compilers for #MS-DOS #retrocomputing (but not free software). This is potentially interesting because of memory handle support.
on 02024-11-28
Item (news.ycombinator.com):
discussion of overlays and other #MS-DOS #retrocomputing memory model stuff
on 02024-11-26
Handle pointers (digitalmars.com):
how Zortech C did virtual memory on #MS-DOS with its “handle memory model” #retrocomputing
on 02024-11-26
DOS memory models (blogsystem5.substack.com):
#retrocomputing summary of #MS-DOS memory models
on 02024-11-26
Objdump adjust vma offset in GNU utilities (stackoverflow.com):
for #disassembling #MS-DOS COM files, objdump -m i386 -M i8086,att -b binary -D --adjust-vma=0x100 foo.com
on 02024-04-15
Msdos (github.com):
#asm source code for 86-dos (#MS-DOS) 1.25. Only about 4 kloc. #history
on 02024-01-14
Oldest known version of DOS unearthed MS DOS ancestor 86 DOS version 011 is now available on the internet archive (tomshardware.com):
apparently #MS-DOS TRANS.COM was a Z80-to-8086 translator. #history
on 02024-01-14
86 DOS Revisited (os2museum.com):
86-DOS (aka QDOS, #MS-DOS) #bootstrapping in 01980, with early disk images (0.11 and 0.34). “COMMAND.COM, SYS, the RDCPM utility, plus the SCP development tools: EDLIN, ASM, TRANS, and HEX2BIN. There is no DEBUG yet, but there is a chess program of unknown provenance.” Also 0.34 includes AARGH, DAMN!, and SHIT commands. #history
on 02024-01-14