From: brianm@ims.com (Brian McLaughlin)
Subject: Stand-alone assemblers
 
dave@powerbasic.com (Dave Navarro) writes:
|> Link Bob said, and I've told you *many* times, NASM is the assembler at 
fault
|> for using "an outdated" method for fixups.  Way back in 1989 all of the 
major
|> assemblers (MASM, TASM, IBM Assembler, Intel Assembler {INASM} and OPTASM) 
all
|> moved to using 32-bit fixups which is "what Intel recommends".
|>
|> NASM needs to get with the program and use the *STANDARD*.
 
I would also like to point out that (at least in the USA), it
is possible to get ahold of TASM rather inexpensively.  I just
recently purchased a book + CD-ROM package from Sams Publishing,
called "Learn C in 21 Days", that comes with Borland C++ 3.1.
 
As it happens, Borland C++ was the "professional level" compiler
of a few years ago, and it came with both TASM and Turbo Debugger,
as well as both DOS and Windows-hosted IDEs, and both C and C++
compilers.
 
The price for all this at CompUSA?  US$40, including the book.
 
Indirectly, I suppose we have Win95 to thank for this bounty.
 
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