Re: Why there are so many assemblers.


ararghmail511NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 28 Nov 2005 11:05:55 -0800, "randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> <randyhyde@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> >Then in the early 1990s, Microsoft did something that rocked the boat
> >-- they introduced "high-level assembly language" to the x86 market
> >(though "introduced" may be a bit strong, as some might consider
> >Intel's PL/M-86 to be a high-level assembler, though I don't
> >particularly agree with that). In addition to advanced data structures
> >(e.g., structs and unions) found in MASM v5, Microsoft introduced

> Minor Nit: MASM 1.0 had structs, AFAICT. (1981)


This is most certainly true. Sorry if I led you to think I was implying
that they were introduced in MASM v5. No one really thought that having
structs and unions (unions, btw, were introduced later; I don't believe
they were present until MASM v4 or so) meant that an assembler was a
"high-level assembler." I.e., no one complained about these sorts of
things in MASM until MASM v6 came along with HLL control structures.
Cheers,
Randy Hyde

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