Subj : short like .COM
To   : Fred Kantor
From : Vitus Jensen
Date : Sat Jan 13 2001 12:05 pm

Moin Fred!

12.01.2001, Fred Kantor wrote a message to David Noon:

 FK> One of the things which I missed in OS/2, was the convenience of
 FK> being able to write very short assembly language programs,
 FK> including self-modifying programs, without a lot of overhead.

I don't miss self-modifying programs, in fact I never wrote one.  When I 
learned programming (~1986) this was already considered harmfull.  My shortest 
OS/2 program so far has 1564 bytes, this is small enough for me.


 FK> So, some time ago, I wrote a text program launcher that let's one do
 FK> that in protected-mode, flat 32-bit address form, in OS/2. E.g.,
 FK> "Hello, world" is less than 70 bytes long.

 FK> If I may ask... might that be of any interest to anyone here?

You wrote a linker and a loader?  Which differentiates between code and data 
sections?
I'm maintaining a OS for microcontroller based handhelds and such devices.  If 
I get a look I could learn something.  So if you release source code I'm very 
interested to get it.

Bye,
   Vitus

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