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Date: | Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:44:10 -0500 |
From: | dj (DJ Delorie) |
To: | A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk |
CC: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
In-reply-to: | <2717EA92180@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk> (A.APPLEYARD@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk) |
Subject: | Re: DJGPP and TASM? |
> > ... we have *lots* of assembler code in our products (ove 40,000 lines in > > the MGL for DOS graphics library) and all this assembler is written with > > TASM.... > > How did djgpp's gas's assembler format get the reverse order from some other > PC assemblers in the first place??? The real question is, "Why did masm/tasm ignore the prevailing standards and choose an incompatible assembler syntax?" Unix is older than MS-DOS.
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