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- 1AMD has CodeAnalyst and its successor CodeXL, but that's for Windows, not DOS.dan04– dan042023-05-03 18:43:45 +00:00Commented May 3, 2023 at 18:43
- 2Did they? Yes - Intel has always provided devtools for their CPUs. Were they free? Not at all, at least not in the early days. The first editions of the Intel compiler for Linux cost a lot of money (at least for commercial use)tofro– tofro2023-05-04 10:38:30 +00:00Commented May 4, 2023 at 10:38
- Thank you. But does this also apply to the other x86 CPU and x87 FPU manufacturers? After all, Intel was the market leader with the greatest spread and set the minimum standards for what an x86 CPU and x87 FPU must be able to do. From that point of view, they didn't really need to distribute debuggers cheaply or free of charge. But could the other manufacturers who built extended opcodes into their CPUs/FPUs really do the same? Cheap or free debuggers would have been a useful promotional tool to better sell the CPUs/FPUs and spread the use of the opcodes better. So did they ask for money too?Coder– Coder2023-05-04 15:14:22 +00:00Commented May 4, 2023 at 15:14
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