alt Hacker NewsAs someone that was alive back then already, only if you never touched the hardware directly outside the CPU.
Even the PC clones didn't had something like portable Assembly if you ventured outside 0x10h and 0x21h interrupts.
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MomsAVoxell • today at 1:57 PM
I did it many times on CP/M and also DOS.
Never ‘touching the hardware’ was attainable for a great deal many assembly programs.
You could do a lot with 0x10h and 0x21h on DOS.
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Right. I am saying there is a difference between portable and non portable assembly code. If you interacted with the machine via call 05h interface, it was portable. If you accessed computer’s video memory buffer directly it wasn’t.