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R.I.P. MS-DEBUG 1981 - 2009

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gone-the-way-of-edlin dept.

AlphaZeta writes "After 28 years, MS-DEBUG is finally being phased out in Windows 7. Over the years, people have been using MS-DEBUG for writing code (virus/malware, you name it) and debugging. "

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  1. Re:Article not quite right ... by EvanED · · Score: 5, Informative

    Depends, is it still the same old 16-bit exe in the versions of Vista people are reporting it to be present? If so, probably "didn't bother to get it working". Many DOS utilities of that time were written in assembly, so getting it working in 64-bit would have basically consisted of rewriting it.

  2. Wrong, Wrong and Wrong by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This article is entirely wrong. DEBUG.EXE hasn't been removed from Windows 7. It's just not included in 64-bit editions of Windows. That goes for 64-bit editions of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7. This is because the 16-bit emulator is no longer included in the 64-bit versions of Windows due to the fact that the x86-64 CPUs cannot switch to 16-bit mode. So it's not DEBUG.EXE that is gone, it's all of DOS that is gone.