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Somewhat more meaningful was "INT 19h" (CD 19), which also took 2 bytes and started the boot loader, bypassing the slow boot sequence of most systems. And woul
by smokel 22d ago
Somewhat more meaningful was "INT 19h" (CD 19), which also took 2 bytes and started the boot loader, bypassing the slow boot sequence of most systems.
And wouldn't a single instruction such as NOP or HLT be simply 1 byte?
- AdieuToLogic 22d ago>> The smallest meaningful program for MS-DOS was exactly 2 bytes ... > Somewhat more meaningful was "INT 19h" (CD 19) ... I seem to remember the smallest MS-DOS program to be CD 20h saved as a `.com`.
- abcd_f 22d agoYeah, but the first one does nothing at all and the second does nothing for a bit :)