At 10:32 PM 7/26/2011, Steve Nickolas wrote: >On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Rugxulo wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Steve Nickolas >><lyricalnan...@usotsuki.hoshinet.org> wrote: >>> >>>Some versions of MS-DOS even included LIB (I have some specimens of 2.x and >>>3.x that do). DEC's releases for the Rainbow even had MASM (!). >> >>Now that is surprising! I wonder which version (and why they stopped). >>That's the kind of thing that would explain LINK + EXE2BIN. But why on >>DEC Rainbows? Perhaps they signed a better licensing deal? Who knows. > >Can't remember (prolly 2.0). It was on the MS-DOS 2.01 master.
I am fairly certain that whatever DEC Rainbow version of MS-DOS 2.01 you have that this is the same disk/image that I have in my archive. And I am also certain that this is not a genuine/"virgin" setup/master disc but a copy of a user modified boot disk and therefor happens to have the masm.exe file on it... Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel