Microsoft has released the code to MS-DOS 4.00 on GitHub; Dave takes you a tour of the code, builds it, and runs it on original hardware. For my book on lif...
Lack of trust: what was it doing behind the scenes? What’s if it just went and … allocated memory all by itself!!
Optimization wasn’t so good back then. People believed that they could write better assembly. For speed and size.
Memory was tight. C would include big libraries even if only one function was needed. If “hello world” was several k in size, that added to the suspicion (even though that was a fixed overhead in practice).
Not everyone knew C.
Lack of trust: what was it doing behind the scenes? What’s if it just went and … allocated memory all by itself!!
Optimization wasn’t so good back then. People believed that they could write better assembly. For speed and size.
Memory was tight. C would include big libraries even if only one function was needed. If “hello world” was several k in size, that added to the suspicion (even though that was a fixed overhead in practice).