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Borland Sidekick, you could pop up a text editor anywhere in the days of MS-DOS

Borland Delphi 5, it was the peak of productive windows programming

debug - the DOS command, you could write small programs on the fly.

list - an incredibly fast file viewer by Vernon D. Buerg.

- Debug

OpenBSD bundles Clang (and Perl better for small software) in base to do that in a safer way.

In MS-DOS you always do an INT 21h with the function in AH.

09h is print string pointed to by DX, $ terminated

4ch is terminate program, with error code in AL

So you could build hello.com in short order.

In Linux, the function numbers are effectively random[1], I don't see how you could build a binary and save it without a lot more work.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/master/c...

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