MASM or TASM?

[n00b!]

Simple reconstruction of post: Why is TASM 5.3 from Inprise and not Borland?

[GregL]

But why is 5.3 from Inprise and not Borland?

At one point Borland changed it's name to Inprise. It's now Borland again but I believe they have sold their development tools.

[PBrennick]

 :8)

[Cobra]

But why is 5.3 from Inprise and not Borland?

At one point Borland changed it's name to Inprise. It's now Borland again but I believe they have sold their development tools.

Borland didn't sell their developement tools. They spun off another company called CodeGear and dumped all the developement tools there. The main division (Borland ) doesn't compete in the developement tools field.

[n00b!]

Simple reconstruction of post: What TASM Manuals are you talking about?
I only know the Tasm.HLP File in the BIN folder [268 KB (274.644 Bytes)]

[hutch--]

noob,

The TASM manuals you get when you BOUGHT TASM.  :bg

[n00b!]

How do you know that I did not do it? :P

[PBrennick]

Before the name was changed to ml.exe it used to be masm.exe and the prominent releases were masm 5.0 and masm 5.1

-- Paul

[hutch--]

 :bg

> How do you know that I did not do it?

I don't but if you did you would own the manuals made of PAPER.

[n00b!]

Simple reconstruction of post: Made of paper? Argh, damn it!

[GregL]

n00b!,

This is the closest thing to a TASM manual that I know of, Paradigm bought TASM 5 and called it Paradigm Assembler. It's pretty much identical to TASM 5.

The manual can be downloaded from the LZASM site.

The link is labeled 'Download Paradigm Assembler User's Guide (TASM 5.0 clone) (945 Kb)'.

[Cobra]

Here's a direct link to the 5.0 users guide in PDF format.

http://www.phatcode.net/res/308/files/pasmug.pdf

[n00b!]

Simple reconstruction of post: Does it contain the most infos about TASM which the TASM manuals have too?

[Mark_Larson]

noob,

The TASM manuals you get when you BOUGHT TASM.  :bg

I still have MY tasm manuals.  I'm anal like that.  of course they are in bad shape  :bg

the whole BIOS was done in tasm.  After I re-wrote the memory test using MASM 6.15 and sse2 ( you couldn't use SSE2 with tasm, no support).  I added the masm 6.15 to the make file, and tried to get other people to use it.  In my opinion despite MASM being done by the evil empire, it is the best assembler out there, bar none.  The macro support in MASM is much better than other assembles.  If you are worried about licensing, then use JWasm or POasm.

[jj2007]

The macro support in MASM is much better than other assembles.  If you are worried about licensing, then use JWasm or POasm.

Masm's macro support is indeed top. You can write a high level language like Basic simply using macros (i.e. it may look like Basic but it is Assembler). But JWasm is a serious alternative: It's syntax is 100% Masm compatible, and even my most horribly complex macros run nowadays smoothly on JWasm.