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 


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