[wruza]

I think masm 6.0 was a time when Watcom went popular [or just known to me] and I was very disappointed of my asm skill that lost ~x2 both in time and size for Brezenham's. I couldn't even understand what exactly Watcom did for so wow, much performance, and I gave up finally :(

So take my words with grain of salt.

>So I never got the idea they were like cpp macros. >TI ...

My experience lays completely in intel 80* range. I'm provincial-ussr born, so even a regular PC-compatible was almost unobtainable until circa '95.

[jacobush]

I can tell you in my provincial Sweden household, a goddamn PC compatible was near unobtainable until 95. Not that I wanted a PC, I remember I dreamt that I had an Amiga but when I woke up I still had a Z80 machine. :-)