Turbo Assembler (sometimes shortened to the name of the executable, TASM) is an

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for software development published by

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in 1989. It runs on and produces code for 16- or 32-bit

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and compatible on

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. It can be used with Borland's other language products:

Turbo Pascal Turbo Pascal is a software development system that includes a compiler and an integrated development environment (IDE) for the Pascal (programming language), Pascal programming language running on CP/M, CP/M-86, and DOS. It was originally develo ...

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, and

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. The Turbo Assembler package is bundled with Turbo

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and is interoperable with

Turbo Debugger Turbo Debugger (TD) is a machine-level debugger for DOS executables, intended mainly for debugging Borland Turbo Pascal, and later Turbo C programs, sold by Borland. It is a full-screen debugger displaying both Turbo Pascal or Turbo C source and c ...

. Borland advertised Turbo Assembler as being 2-3 times faster than its primary competitor,

Microsoft Macro Assembler The Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM) is an x86 assembler that uses the Intel syntax for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. Beginning with MASM 8.0, there are two versions of the assembler: One for 16-bit & 32-bit assembly sources, and another (ML64) fo ...

(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
by Lakhya Jyoti Nath {{X86 assembly topics 1989 software Borland software Assemblers DOS software Programming tools for Windows

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