On Sat, 11 May 2019, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
Add to that, that really good "C" compilers for the x80/x86 took some time to mature. My first C on an 8086 was Lattice; compiled on a floppy-based system.
DeSmet was in my price range, . . .
But then Microsoft MASM 1.0 was terrible in its own right as well--the list of errata was quite long.
"To make a file of that list, you are going to need more disk space."
I remember mumbling to myself "that's not what I wrote!".
Version 5.0? was the first to come with materials that could even be called "documentation". But, I had been playing confusedly with MASM 1.0 since the day that it came out.
