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What do you mean? It's a simple straightforward debug tool, or a monitor as it used to be called in 8-bit systems.

PC magazines used to publish source code listings for little utilities in the form of DEBUG scripts.

I painstakingly entered so many bytes into DEBUG from the back pages of PC Magazine. It was an amazing experience when they added the ability to pay $4.95 or something cheap (for the time) to access "ZiffNet" as a walled-off section of CompuServe and download the utilities from there.

For those who want to re-live the moment, look at this PDF starting on internal page 873 (file page 894): http://vtda.org/books/Computing/OperatingSystems/DOSPowerToo...

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