Message-Id: Date: Sat, 19 Apr 97 12:55 NZST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl From: Lorier Subject: Re: Usage of directory entries Cc: pierre AT tycho DOT com, opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk >> >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 :)