Being safe on the internet (was Re: Here we go again - ISP DPI, but is it interception?)
Roland Perry
lists at internetpolicyagency.com
Thu Aug 12 10:49:46 BST 2010
In article <CB42DECB-06C1-4683-8BEE-59F24B50008C at batten.eu.org>, Ian
Batten <igb at batten.eu.org> writes
>> I did that few times for DOS4 ! Although (as an OEM who wrote, with
>>my own fair hand, a few customisations) I had the source code for
>>several of the device drivers and utilities, I didn't for the main
>>body of the product. The parts in question were written in Intel
>>assembly code.
>
>Compilers were a lot simpler, though. Fixing problems without the
>source was easier when compilers generated fairly stereotyped code and
>the object instruction sequence was closely related to the source
>program.
But sticking assembly code through a disassember (whether that's a
formal one, or in one's head) is very closely related.
--
Roland Perry
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