A 23-byte "hello, world" program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS

Print out the current time in words.

A DOS .COM program ~390 bytes.

https://github.com/linker3000/Historic-code-PC-Pascal-and-AS...

DEBUG < HELLO.TXT

If I knew that when I was young .. it would had me saved hours. I allways started DEBUG and entered the (few) assembler code direct.

I had just QBasic and later I played a bit with DEBUG. That was before we had internet and every kind of compiler for free :-)

taking me back to creating fliphide, a utility I wrote in the early '90s. It utilized assembly and INT21, guided by "Undocumented DOS"—a book uncovering the OS's undocumented features. This resource was pivotal for crafting an executable (whether .exe or .com didn't matter) that manipulated file attributes, showcasing the power of accessing deeper OS layers not widely known or used.

instead of actually learning how to code something useful, 12 year old me spent hours fooling around with whoadude nonsense like:

  A:> debug.exe 
  -n a:\debug.exe
  -l
  -a 100
  -g =100

  -n a:\debug.exe
  -l
  -a 100
  -g =100