Message-Id:	<m0wIORZ-000FkaC@hn.planet.gen.nz>
Date:	Sat, 19 Apr 97 12:55 NZST
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To:	grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
From:	Lorier <lorier AT ihug DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Re: Usage of directory entries
Cc:	pierre AT tycho DOT com, opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com

>> >don't know of good 16-bit C compilers for free (in the GPL sense), but for
>> >assembler we could use NASM like Mark is already doing. One of the first
>> >thing that should be done when the OpenDOS sources are done would be to
>> >convert all the assembler sources we can find to NASM. Whew! Most of the
>> >DOS internals are in asm, so I guess there is a lot of code to translate!
>> 
>> What are they currently?  And how different is NASM? the difference of AT&T
>> -> Intel? or is it just formatting? :)
>OD sources use TASM (several versions), RASM (an internal DRI assembler) and
>MASM (also several versions). All Intel syntax.

They didn't get the rights to RASM perhaps? Hmm... Ah well, possibly write a
TASM klone and port everything to that :)

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