From: nedlatham@nospicedham.woden.valhalla.oz   
      
   Frank Kotler wrote:   
   > Melzzzzz wrote:   
      
   > > > You have plenty of assemblers nowadays which are better then masm.   
   > > > I use nasm and fasm.   
   > >   
   > > What's besser than MASM ?   
   >   
   > :) :) :)   
   >   
   > As moderator, I really should point out that "My assembler is better   
   > than your assembler" is really not on topic here... (differences are okay)   
      
   Or comments on quality?   
      
   Back in 1994 a year 2 assigment was to write an automaton in assembler.   
   They gave us three weeks and MASM, EDIT (or was it EDLIN?) and some M$   
   system calls to work with. The editor and the asembler were pathetic.   
      
   I mean they were both *really* bad. And the system calls were slo-o-o-w.   
      
   So after nine days of struggling with those grossly inadequate tools   
   I spat the dummy. Got onto usenet looking for some help. Found PC-Write   
   and a86. Also did a bit of checking on the IBM PC BIOS.   
      
   Rewrote the assigment using those tools and info. Finished ahead of   
   time and got 110/100 for it.   
      
   What's better than MASM? a86. Streets ahead.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)