Re: Boot code rewritten for GAS

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 5 Aug 1999 10:46:51 +0100 (BST)

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> > Another reason: People who can write 16-bit x86 assembly are likely to
> > be ex-DOS hackers with MASM and TASM experience. To them, gas syntax
> > may be hard to use.
> >
>
> Indeed. NASM would be a better choice than either gas or as86.

I know gas syntax and I know minix as (ie as86)syntax. I never figured out
the messy verbose DOS syntax. So I don't buy this argument

Alan

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