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It's amazing they were able to do everything MS-DOS did with that simple of code.
Genuine geniuses.
James Comey, is that you?
The printout could have said 80085 but they chose to not be cool.
I can 1/2 read asm, know c/c++/c# and a bunch of other languages but how do I even read this?
This is just the printout?
Yeah, obviously but does it mean something?
Well not more than the obvious?
Be a programming god like Bill Gates.
He was a business God, not so sure of programming God, more like surrounding himself with programming gods.
But seriously, how do you read this, is it like a representation of how the memory should be at a specific point in time? I'm guessing blank spaces would be undefined then?
That's just the cover page, you can see the source files here.
The print out is "bundle_2", while the actual compliable source is in "86DOS.A86", you can see where the code starts and the header ends.
Ah, the bundle_2 link looks at lot more readable and understandable. That said it's not even 530am yet here so I'll need a little while to wake up before I can try to understand it.
Amen
What line of code?