Re:Show HN: 8086/8088 assembler that runs over 8088 hardware...
by acqq on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:43PM
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> I'm a little surprised that it wasn't itself written in Asm
I'm not, it's just not worth the effort.
> in the 8086/8088 era, it's huge; the first IBM PC in its minimum configuration had only 16K RAM.
It's really not needed today.
> For a more "authentic" 8088 experience, you could use the assembler that came with MS-DOS 1.25, written by Tim Paterson
The author here wanted just his own .asm sources to assemble natively, and not using nasm, and if I understand correctly they indeed depend on the features not present in the old assembler, he writes:
"nasm doesn't run over 8086/8088 processors,
and I couldn't find a compatible assembler!"
It's not that he couldn't find any assembler, but that he couldn't find one that understands the features from nasm he used.
I'm not, it's just not worth the effort.
> in the 8086/8088 era, it's huge; the first IBM PC in its minimum configuration had only 16K RAM.
It's really not needed today.
> For a more "authentic" 8088 experience, you could use the assembler that came with MS-DOS 1.25, written by Tim Paterson
The author here wanted just his own .asm sources to assemble natively, and not using nasm, and if I understand correctly they indeed depend on the features not present in the old assembler, he writes:
"nasm doesn't run over 8086/8088 processors, and I couldn't find a compatible assembler!"
It's not that he couldn't find any assembler, but that he couldn't find one that understands the features from nasm he used.