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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT hoth DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
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Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 08:25:58 +0100
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Subject: Re: OpenDOS Kernel sources finally! :)
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Once upon a time (on  8 May 97 at 14:37) Pierre Phaneuf said:

> On Thu, 8 May 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> 
> > > Micro-C anyone? It's going to be for porting from ASM anyway...
> > As we heard, Micro-C requires a MASM or compatible assembler - definitely
> > not good...
> 
> How about the Arrowsoft free assembler the FreeDOS guys uses? For 32-bit, I
Never used it. Is it good?

> expect we're all jumping on to DJGPP, right? And the FreeDOS guys already
True, but not with AS onboard. It's not a good tool for general development. 
It's been designed to be a back-end assembler for gcc and, as such, has 
almost no error checking and advanced capabilities we need. NASM should be 
fine, though.

> have a 16-bit C development system running, though it is not really ANSI C
> (not complete in some ways), but should do just fine to port assembler to C,
> no? ;-)
The Micro-C compiler, right?
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