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In article <19866@plains.NoDak.edu> person@plains.NoDak.edu (Brett G Person ) writes:
>Can I use in-line assembly when I do this? :-) 
>C does have it's place, but for bare-bones control over the hardware I
>

I know that C and C++ are great languages.  I spend days to program in
C++.  The idea of a HLL _only_ smallest TSR is just to demonstrate that
there is a limit, at least in size, to what you could do in C or Pascal
(I while I don't use Pascal, some do).

But, from first example of a small TSR we got, the program was heavily
using inline or assembly code using particularities of C to make it
easier to program in assembly than direct assembly.  However, this is
ASM, not HLL (high level language).  In other words, it is curious
to need to use the lower level language to get the more (or the less
in space occupied) from a higher level language (or isn't it natural :
the more you know, the more you can do).

Indeed, we could have 3 classes : pure ASM, pure HLL, and mixed.
Probably pure ASM will be the lower, mixed next, and pure HLL the
biggest.  Knowing the PSP is such that you need some lost space,
I have not yet seen an example using the environment space to still
use less memory!  Perhaps, this would be reliable after checking
all the DOS memory structure to be sure this environment is at the right
place.

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