RE: Hey old people

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Drsolly wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Drsolly wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
> >
> > > Larry Seltzer wrote:
> > >
> > > > Yeah, that's right, and it was one of the reasons DOS 2.0 was important.
> > > > You might have noticed that EXE files begin with 'MZ' (and the DOS 2+ MCB
> > > > chain uses M and Z as identifiers). These are vanity marks for Mark
> > > > Zbikowski, lead programmer on DOS 2.0, but he wasn't even a Microsoft
> > > > employee when DOS 1 was written.
> > >
> > > So presumably LINK.EXE also first appeared in DOS 2.0 (or a later 
> > > version)?
> >  
> > Unfortunately, I no longer have my PC Dos 1.1 diskette.
>  
> And with PC Dos 1.1, you also got exe2bin.exe
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~rvtol/pcdos110.html
 
And edlin. Ah, edlin. I actually used edlin. When I first got a PC, 1983, 
I was used to using mainframes and minis like the PDP and Vax. So I said, 
OK, where's the editor, where's the compiler, because with mainframes and 
minis, you use what's there, no choice. So I used Edlin and Basica for 
programming, and I used it for a full six weeks before I realised that I 
could buy the IBM Professional Editor and the Microsoft Fortran Compiiler.

And let me tell you, you don't want to use edlin as an editor, and Basic 
programs (in that old version of Basic) set like concrete within a few 
weeks of writing them.

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