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posted by Japheth Homepage, Germany (South), 22.03.2009, 06:42
(edited by Japheth on 22.03.2009, 06:54)

> Seems that both Japheth and JWAsm got banned from the forum of
> King Hutch :clap:
I just checked this: I can login with 'Japheth', I'm not banned. The "Open Watcom Assembler" forum has been removed, yes. IIRC I did suggest that to Hutch one week ago.

> Some dead links (used to work few days ago):
>
> http://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=10519.0
> http://masm32.com/board/index.php?topic=10872.0
I'm sure you know the reason behind posting dead links ...

> Here linkers indeed might be unique but the hack is horrible ... the
> overlay swapping overhead (XMS, EMS, disk) eats away cca 99% of the space
> save achieved ... for a representative example, just check GV EDIT
> (bloated, and 64 KiB limit) :-(
Let us both continue to believe what we want to believe!

> > So code similar to this one:
> > mov ax,TEXT("string 1")
> > mov bx,TEXT("string 2")
> > where the macro TEXT will ensure that the strings are written into
> their
> > very own segment, cannot be done equally easily in FASM in "MZ-EXE"
> mode.
>
> Maybe true, but I don't see any huge benefit :-|
Just wait and let grow your experience in assembly. Then, in a couple of years we might talk about this topic again.

> That FASM lacks OMF and this problem is very minor has been already
> overdiscussed, the more important point is that all the
> great-since-portable-away-from-DOS "arguments" by Rugxulo,
> Japheth (check a few 1000's posts in various forums) and many
> others are inherently invalid, because for a DOS user it's a
> fault if something gets ported away, not a feature. And, FASM is
> one of the very few things that started on DOS, later got ported away from
> DOS, but still have very good DOS support, and even have features ported
> back to the DOS version.
There's a problem with posting such nonsense: some members might regard it as an insult for their intellect. OTOH there's virtually no chance that anyone will buy your "argument". Bad chance-risk ratio!

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MS-DOS forever!

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