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NASM version 2.09 available | A86 (Announce)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 07.09.2010, 19:15

> For a low cost assembler it was good in its day.
That might be true.

> It
> is also nice if you want to compile simple progs without complex syntax's
org 100h

label:
mov dx, message
mov cx, message.end - message
mov bx, 1
mov ah, 40h
int 21h

jmp short .locallabel

; The jump isn't required of course.

.locallabel:
mov ax, 4C00h
int 21h

message:
db "Now tell me this is complex syntax.",13,10
.end:

I don't doubt that you can write simple programs in A86 easily, but so can I in NASM. The difference is that NASM is better at complex programs while still allowing the simple syntax for simple stuff. (For the record, I could have called Int21.09 but I don't like it that much.)

> and yes as you've pointed out it runs on pretty much anything. Indeed I've
> not found anything it wouldn't run on including even "embedded" 286
> typewriters !
I would think running on as low as an 8086 is related to it being available for that long too. Like all I've written by now, this points to A86 being outdated.

> [...], if you believe the author.
 >
> I do.
I do too. That wasn't the point.

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