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NASM version 2.09 available (Announce)

posted by marcov, 27.08.2010, 17:10

> NASM.EXE is a 460 KiB file which means that it barely
> runs at all and usually crashes if I try to assemble anything at all (at
> least I hope the crash is only due to running out of memory). NDISASM.EXE
> works fine though, and is just about 110 KiB.
>
> So NASM still can be compiled for 8086 systems. If I have time for that, I
> might look into stripping it down better to get the executable's size down.
> Maybe write some code to let it use disk or XMS swapping? Hmm.
Maybe time to throw out those 8086's and 80186, and raise the limit to a more modern machine, like a 286 ? :-D :-D :-D

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