On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:51:39 -0800 (PST)
Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
  On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
  Was it ever standard with Windows or DOS?  If
memory serves,
 it was always an add-on package. IIRC, MASM 1.0 was abouit
 $100, which didn't make it much of a bargain. 
 MASM was never standard with PC-DOS or Windoze.
 But it WAS included by many OEMs with MS-DOS (for example
 Toshiba T300).
 It is included with Visual Studio.
 (Where does Microsoft get their product names???)
  
I have an old version of MASM installed on my HP-95lx palmtop.
   LIB and LINK
were packaged with DOS, 
 was originally included with PC-DOS, but stopped being
included
 (around 5.0?)
 also EXE2BIN.EXE 
 
And of course, always debug.  People used to distribute small
binaries as debug scripts ('pipe this textfile into debug and
save')