On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 1:23 AM, Dave Angel <da...@davea.name> wrote: > Additionally, the MSDOS DEBUG program used hex to enter in its literals, if > i recall correctly. Certainly when it disassembled code, it was in hex.
Indeed, and that's where I learned 80x86 assembly coding (I didn't have an actual assembler at the time). DEBUG didn't even have the option of using other bases; other assemblers might give you "decimal by default, or adorn them for other bases" (eg MASM's &H notation), but DEBUG forced you to convert to hex manually. Although, to be fair, DEBUG was said to have a "mini-assembler" built in. It was never designed to replace actual assemblers, AFAIK. I just happened to use it that way. :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
