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Re: Best DOS assembler?

From	"Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm>
Newsgroups	comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject	Re: Best DOS assembler?
Date	2011-08-19 19:14 -0400
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"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in message
news:b1b9a1ca7ff3d15f40010957093199b3@dizum.com...
> Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone want to cast his vote for best DOS assembler? What was your
> > favorite assembler back in the day (not including modern assemblers that
> > will run on DOS like NASM/FASM etc.)
>
> Was this such a wierd question? How come nobody answered?
>
> I know about MASM and TASM. Anything else good?
> >
>

Usenet volume has fallen over the past few years.  There are hardly any
posts here anymore.  Html based forums seems to be more active.  But, I'm
not sure if even they are "the place" with all the new methods of
communicating today.

I didn't have any problem answering, even though the basic question of ones
favorite assembler comes up all the time on alt.os.development,
alt.lang.asm, comp.lang.asm.x86 etc.  It's just that you excluded me by the
way you phrased the question.  It seems you also asked something similar a
few months ago.  I wasn't programming on x86 PCs "back in the day", so I
didn't use any of the early x86 assemblers, AFAIR ...  I may have used DEBUG
a few times.  It's likely I did, but I really don't recall anymore.
Currently, I like NASM for standalone x86 assembly, but I haven't used it
for 64-bit code, yet.  The developers made some changes to the syntax for
64-bits which I suspect I won't be happy with.  YASM and FASM use, or did
use, the same syntax.  I also use inline assembly in C which I believe is
GNU's GAS assembler for GCC (with DJGPP) and WASM assembler for
OpenWatcom's C compiler.  For newer OpenWatcom, I think WASM has
been replaced by JWASM.

There are lots of x86 assemblers:

MASM, TASM, NBASM, WASM, JWASM,
NASM, FASM, YASM,
GAS,
A86, POASM, GOASM, ROSASM, HLA
etc

MASM syntax on the first line, NASM syntax on the second line, GAS
syntax on the third, and various on the fourth.  HLA is there because I'm
being polite.  It's not an "assembler" IMO.  It's a HLL.  It should be easy
to locate all of them, but let me know, if not.

Rod Pemberton

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  Re: Best DOS assembler? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-08-19 12:49 +0200
    Re: Best DOS assembler? Jim Leonard <mobygamer@gmail.com> - 2011-08-19 07:40 -0700
    Re: Best DOS assembler? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2011-08-19 19:14 -0400
      Re: Best DOS assembler? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-08-21 01:03 +0200
      Re: Best DOS assembler? ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2011-08-30 13:27 +0000
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  Re: Best DOS assembler? Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> - 2011-08-24 01:06 -0700
    Re: Best DOS assembler? monahanz <monahan@vitasoft.org> - 2011-09-01 00:20 -0700
      Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-01 12:24 -0400
        Re: Best DOS assembler? monahanz <monahan@vitasoft.org> - 2011-09-01 10:41 -0700
          Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-01 14:40 -0400
            Re: Best DOS assembler? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201109.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-09-02 07:11 +0200
              Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-02 11:09 -0400
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201109.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-09-05 02:06 +0200
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-05 14:57 -0400
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201109.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-09-06 03:01 +0200
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-06 10:28 -0400
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-09-08 06:37 +0200
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-09 11:47 -0400
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201109.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-09-10 23:19 +0200
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-10 20:09 -0400
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-09-11 10:48 +0200
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-11 12:18 -0400
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201109.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2011-09-12 01:31 +0200
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-12 11:30 -0400
            Re: Best DOS assembler? ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2011-09-04 13:02 +0000
              Re: Best DOS assembler? Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2011-09-04 10:01 -0400
        Re: Best DOS assembler? Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2011-09-01 22:46 +0200
      Re: Best DOS assembler? Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> - 2011-09-01 16:07 -0700
        Re: Best DOS assembler? monahanz <monahan@vitasoft.org> - 2011-09-01 21:56 -0700
          Re: Best DOS assembler? Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> - 2011-09-02 16:19 -0700
          Re: Best DOS assembler? "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have@noavailemail.cmm> - 2011-09-02 20:23 -0400
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            Re: Best DOS assembler? monahanz <monahan@vitasoft.org> - 2011-09-03 10:12 -0700
              Re: Best DOS assembler? Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> - 2011-09-03 11:42 -0700
                Re: Best DOS assembler? monahanz <monahan@vitasoft.org> - 2011-09-03 22:21 -0700
                Re: Best DOS assembler? Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> - 2011-09-04 22:43 -0700
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                Re: Best DOS assembler? Rugxulo <rugxulo@gmail.com> - 2011-09-04 09:13 -0700
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                Re: Best DOS assembler? ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) - 2011-09-17 10:40 +0000
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