C might be a horrible language......there's no real alternative to C 

MOV AH,02
MOV DL,"A" 
INT 21h
MOV DL,"S" 
INT 21h
MOV DL,"M" 
INT 21h
MOV DL,"?" 
INT 21h
MOV AH,04Ch
MOV AL,00
INT 21h

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When you look at the alternative C starts to look pretty damn good! The only advantage of ASM is that the binaries tent to be tiny ie 24 bytes for that example as opposed to 36K for the same thing compiled in C using cl.exe: 

perl -e "print pack'H*','b402b241cd21b253cd21b24dcd21b23fcd21b44cb000c
+d21'" > asm.com

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cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re: Re: Perl Operating System by tachyon
in thread Perl Operating System by martymart

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