From: nedlatham@nospicedham.woden.valhalla.oz   
      
   R.Wieser wrote:   
   > 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".   
      
   Well, my experience of Borland *is* limited to Turbo Pascal for CP/M.   
   There was no assembler with it. (But CP/M had some pretty good ones.)   
      
   As far as x86 assemblers go, I've only ever used MASM and a86.   
   MASM bad, a86 good; so good that I never looked beyond it.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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