x86 Assembler Recommendations

[Jim Leonard]

I have TASM 2.0 (which I used to develop something for my IBM PC Model 5150 
last year) if you can't find it and really need it.

Michael B. Brutman wrote:
> 
> Here is the summary of suggestions that I've received:
> 
> MASM32 (www.masm32.com) - geared toward 32 bit environments?
> WASM (Open Watcom) - not as full featured as MASM or TASM but usable?
> Arrow assember
> A86
> AS (http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/as/index.html)
> RASM86 (Digital Research .. the 'other' DOS)
> 
> 
> I'll be scanning eBay for TASM or older MASMs for a bit, and looking at 
> the others to see what might work.  Being a newbie I'm a little hesitant 
> to experiment with anything but the gold standard (okay, maybe not 
> gold), so TASM and MASM are higher up on my list.
> 
> Another possibility is finding a 6.x version of MASM on DevNet CDs.  At 
> work I do all of my programming in a Linux environment, so we don't have 
> DevNet CDs just laying around ...
> 
> 
> Thanks again,
> Mike

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