Turbo Assembler (sometimes shortened to the name of the executable, TASM) is an assembler for software development published by Borland in 1989. It runs on and produces code for 16- or 32-bit x86

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and compatible on Microsoft Windows. It can be used with Borland's other language products:

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, Turbo Basic, Turbo C, and

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. The Turbo Assembler package is bundled with Turbo

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and is interoperable with Turbo Debugger. Borland advertised Turbo Assembler as being 2-3 times faster than its primary competitor, Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM). TASM can assemble source in a MASM-compatible mode or an ''ideal mode'' with a few enhancements.

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was added in version 3. The last version of Turbo Assembler is 5.4, with files dated 1996 and patches up to 2010; it is still included with

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and

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. TASM itself is a 16-bit program. It will run on 16- and 32-bit versions of Windows, and produce code for the same versions, but it does not generate 64-bit x86 code.

Example

A Turbo Assembler program that prints 'Merry Christmas!': .model small .stack 100h .data msg db "Merry Christmas!",'$' .code main proc mov ax, SEG msg mov ds, ax mov dx, offset msg mov ah, 9 int 21h mov ax, 4c00h int 21h main endp end main

References

;Notes *Swan, Tom (1989). ''Mastering Turbo Assembler.'' Carmel, Indiana: Howard W. Sams & Company, Hayden Books division of Macmillan Computer Publishing. . 2nd Edition, 1995 .

External links

Mastering Turbo Assembler: Programming with Objects

GUI Turbo Assembler (TASM) : A 64bit MuItilingual IDE for Assembly Language with TASM & TLINK
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