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TheHeadFL · 02-16-2006, 01:31 PM

You would start with a computer that does have an OS on it. You would do your programming and assembly coding on a functioning pc.

Then you would take the machine code you generated, and place that (automatically or by hand) into a special memory address on a floppy disk or the hard drive that the BIOS knows to automatically load upon boot, and then the assembly code takes it from there.

Before there were working PCs to do this with, the assembly code was all done by hand and loaded in via card readers.

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TheHeadFL Ultra Techie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 530	You would start with a computer that does have an OS on it. You would do your programming and assembly coding on a functioning pc. Then you would take the machine code you generated, and place that (automatically or by hand) into a special memory address on a floppy disk or the hard drive that the BIOS knows to automatically load upon boot, and then the assembly code takes it from there. Before there were working PCs to do this with, the assembly code was all done by hand and loaded in via card readers. __________________ Desktop machine: 2 x Opteron 246, Asus K8N-DL, 2GB PC3200 ECC Reg., XFX GeForce 6600GT, 74gb WD Raptor, 2 x 19\" LCDs, Windows XP x64 Server machine: Intel P4 3.0GHz 2MB EM64T, ECS i865pe, 1GB PC3200, 36gb WD Raptor, Windows Server 2003 Laptop: Dell Inspiron 9100 (Intel P4 3.2GHz 1MB Prescott, i865pe, 512MB PC3200, Mobility Radeon 9700, DVD+R/DL Burner), Windows XP Linux: P3 450Mhz, 386MB ram, Slackware 10.1 (Running mySQL/Apache)