[OpenBIOS] Is this list still alive?

David Woodhouse Dave at imladris.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 11 17:41:43 CET 1998


danh at firstwest.com said:
> Am I able to use C, or is this strictly asm? Of course some asm will
> be involved but C makes the development faster. 

Do what you like. I don't think it's particularly reasonable to expect the 
whole thing to be written in asm. 

Also, I reckon that just about any compiler can generate better asm than I can.



steve at icarus.icarus.com said:
>  Doing without a compiler only makes sense for writing a few tricky
> functions or impressing women.

I'm inclined to agree. Glance at http://dwmw2.robinson.cam.ac.uk/devload/ for 
evidence to back this up. It was fun, but I wouldn't want to do it again.

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