Whats the point?
anomit | February 22, 2008Follow this link.
DOS is dead. It’s 16-bit. It’s obsolete. The only people that still write DOS assembly are crazy old hackers that are too attached to their 386s to throw them away.
Couldn’t agree more. I see no reason to be working with 16-bit registers on systems where you can afford 32-bit mode. Developing assembly programs for DOS using 8086/8088 code means you are forced to run them in ‘real mode’, that the processor can address only 1MByte of memory. Also that you will be tearing out your hair keeping track of segments and also that you would never know when a segfault would be staring you in the face. Take into account the fact that unlike linux which would give an error like Segmentation fault(Core dumped) and then come back to its helpful self, if you are working on the Command Prompt you would only get to see something like An illegal instruction occured at
I have no idea though why our colleges are so obsessed with totally obsolete standards that are out of sync with the requirements of modern computing.
....cos it gives u ur fundamentals. (same as why we learn
surjodeb | April 16, 2008….cos it gives u ur fundamentals.
(same as why we learn addition before multiplication)
How about going back to programming the archaic Atari machines?
anomit | April 16, 2008How about going back to programming the archaic Atari machines? Or maybe even back to those days when one had to write only in hex opcodes…..ok, let my imagination run wild, lets write machine code in 0s and 1s!
Seriously though, I have issues with the way DOS blows up in my face when i write a wrong code. So much for protected mode programming.