Thank you very much for that super analysis done with the help of AI - I really enjoyed reading that. May I ask are you paying for that service? And if so, how much?
Anyhow, I downloaded your ZIP file and looked into the disassembly. It seems that the disassembler simply disassembled byte by byte not taking into account that TURBO.COM is both, code and data. Since the x86 instruction set is very tense, pretty much every byte sequence turns into legal instructions. Even the ASCII strings were disassembled. Look at address hex4864 in the file for example - it should be the string "Write block to file" but got disassembled. I wonder how AI managed that obscure file.
…in terms of software, yes, Turbo Pascal is - at least for me - one of the finest software ever created…
20 years ago I reverse engineered the command line compiler BPC.EXE, 80kB of code, 40kB data, absolutely mindblowing whats in there. A masterpiece of software which should be open sourced (never going to happen…)
Anyway, thank you Mr. Anders Hejlsberg for Turbo Pascal!
Anyhow, I downloaded your ZIP file and looked into the disassembly. It seems that the disassembler simply disassembled byte by byte not taking into account that TURBO.COM is both, code and data. Since the x86 instruction set is very tense, pretty much every byte sequence turns into legal instructions. Even the ASCII strings were disassembled. Look at address hex4864 in the file for example - it should be the string "Write block to file" but got disassembled. I wonder how AI managed that obscure file.