From: etienne.marais@nospicedham.gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, January 5, 2023 at 11:44:53 AM UTC+2, wolfgang kern wrote:   
   > On 04/01/2023 11:15, Etienne Marais wrote:    
   > > I have studied most of the commands and features available in debug.exe   
   now, but I am curious to why and when one would like to make use of the w   
   'write' version where you can specify the start sector of the disk. Is this   
   for very low level stuff    
   only ?   
   > even cumbersome to enter everything in hexadecimal and in consecutive    
   > order debug.com was absolute the best way to create my very own tools    
   > and the core of my first OS (~1980)    
   >    
   > Yes, it is really the lowest level possible for programming.    
   > But it can also be a life saver for complete sector restore.    
   > (you need to know and be aware of CHS and LBA formats)    
   >    
   > I wrote my whole OS [KESYS] in hexadecimal and ASCII only.    
   > But my own tool gave me much more comfort than DOS-debug:    
   > * immediate disassemble for input verify    
   > * allow full navigation within set limits (ie: go back up).    
   > * can change between 16/32/64bit code interpreter anytime.    
   > * toggle between ASCII/HEX input and dump view as well.    
   > * RD/WR from/to any media, incl. partial sector writes.    
   > * and a few more :)    
   >    
   > unfortunately it became all history now (damned UEFI)    
   > __    
   > wolfgang   
       
   Gonna Github it ?   
      
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