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From: cur022%cluster@ukc.ac.uk (Bob Eager)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Object Files Format
Message-ID: <21508.2765fed3@cluster@ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Dec 90 09:56:35 GMT
References: <3416@litp.ibp.fr> <4445@altos86.Altos.COM> <547@anomaly.sbs.com>
Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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In article <547@anomaly.sbs.com>, mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
> rcollins@altos86.Altos.COM (Robert Collins) writes:
>>Who's .OBJ file format?  MSDOS's!  Who makes MSDOS?  Microsoft.
> Actually, its Intel's format. MSDOS uses a subset of Intel's.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Not so simple. There are extensions too (e.g. stuff in the Intel COMENT
records).
> 
>>Conclusion:  Call Microsoft. 
> Conclusion: Call Intel. And they don't give anything away for nuthin.
                   ^^^^^      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Last time I heard, MS in the US *would* give it away for nuthin. And I got
it for nuthin from MS in the UK, too!
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