bootstrapping from COPY CON

[Kragen Javier Sitaker]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:03:08AM -0400, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:
> The self-hosted tools, however, were much better than COPY CON.  I
> imagine Tim Paterson wrote the first version of DEBUG.COM using a
> cross-assembler hosted on a CP/M machine, which was presumably written
> using an 8080 assembler, and if you had to bootstrap an 8080 assembler
> on CP/M, you could certainly have used [DDT.COM][0], which included
> assembly and disassembly facilities similar to DEBUG's.  (And DDT.COM
> was written by, I guess, Gary Kildall on some DEC machine.)

(Turns out ASM.COM was distributed with CP/M too, and thus presumably
also written by Gary on a DEC box.)

Kragen