Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:47:48 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
To: Chip Turner <turnerjh AT ctrvax DOT Vanderbilt DOT Edu>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Rants and Raves
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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Chip Turner wrote:
> >You might consider using A86 instead of the others, it has better speed
> Yeah, but A86 is NaziWare.  Just reading the licensing agreements made my

Have you ever read ALL his docs?  The man clearly put a lot of work into
creating a _single_pass_ assembler which wouldn't choke over the size of
the source file, has extensive macro handling, structured program
constructs, and also considered building in support for MASM!  This was no
minor undertaking.  His debugger is a piece of art too, supports two
monitors, (your old cga for the debugger, and your shiny svga 1600x1200x1m
super dazzle color for your program.), plus viewing memory in a variety of
ways, (text, ascii, byte, word, hex, binary, octal, & more), trapping
INT's, patching in memonics, adding symbols, a bunch more.  Heck, if I
stuck with assembly for x86's, I would've registered!