Hi George
 > though I much preferred the Cromemco assembler
    Agreed 100%. I have ASMB.COM, LINK.COM and LIB.COM for CP/M, ported by 
XITAN systems in Southampton under license from Cromemco. It allowed umpteen 
more instructions than ASM did, and used the .rel format which tied in with 
all the other compilers, except for C which was only available on Cromix 
systems initially. Those were really noisy in the hard disks. The Cromemco C 
compiler was really nice for a full K&R implementation, but it was based 
around the unix compiler and so had functions like fork() and pipe(). :-)
 > As a slightly on topic bit, Microsoft did not even
 > write their own C compiler for the PC initially, they licensed the
 > Lattice compiler, though they did later write their own.
    Mm-hmm. I had to restrain myself from answering those posts. They got up 
my nose a bit. :-) Are you sure it was from Adam Majer? Mine was marked from 
David Van Hoose. Equally off-topic and little more accurate.
Best wishes,
Bill.
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