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   Ned,   
      
   >> My personal favorite was tasm, the assmbler shipped alongside Borland's   
   >> Turbo languages.   
   >   
   > Mmm. Borland were good. I had Turbo Pascal on my CP/M machine.   
      
   Don't be too sure of that.   
      
   I still have-and-use Tasm32 v5.x , and over time have found a number of bugs   
   in it.  Some that did not seem to have any adverse effects, one which made   
   it forget the remainder of the line, some which caused garbage to be   
   generated, and others that just crashed either the assembler or linker.   It   
   also cannot load a register with a constant float or define wide strings   
   ("db" for ASCII, nothing for wide strings).   
      
   IOW, its "good enough" (as long as you stay aware of its quirks), but   
   certainly not "good".   
      
   Regards,   
   Rudy Wieser   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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