Xref: utzoo comp.sources.wanted:4579 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:556
Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!arizona!cjeffery
From: cjeffery@arizona.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Need Good PD MS-DOS disassembler
Message-ID: <6300@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 16 Jul 88 22:05:25 GMT
References: <4499@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
Lines: 17

From article <4499@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>, by browning@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Craig Browning):
> The best shareware assembler, perhaps the best assembler is Isaacsons(sp?)'s
> A86 and D86 (disassembler) packages available on BBS's. perhaps they should
> be posted here.
No, they shouldn't.  They are available by ftp on simtel20.ARPA and friends.

> I didn't use it much but it looked good, done by a guy who used to work for
> someone relevant (helped design the processor or the official assembler or
> something ...)

I'm not sure anyone is as good as Isaacson claims he himself is.
On what basis, other than the author's blowing his own horn in the
readme files, do you say A86/D86 are that great?  I tried it a bit
and thought it was OK, but not perfect.  Anyhow, I thought D86 was
more of a 'Debugger' than a 'Disassembler'.  Maybe I am wrong...
-- 
| Clint Jeffery, University of Arizona Department of Computer Science
| cjeffery@arizona.edu -or- {ihnp4 noao allegra cmcl2}!arizona!cjeffery
--