Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 18:43:13 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: Interrupts and DMA access
To: alh AT engr DOT engr DOT uark DOT edu
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>I don't know if this has come up before or if it already exist, i.e. I 
>didn't dig real deep in doing my homework, but.. ;)  I was thinking, 
>providing there was enough interest, developing a macro convertor from 
>(T/M)ASM -> as and vise-versa using maybe flex?  The biggest turn off for 
>djgpp that I've found for most, is the fact they lerned using tasm...
>IMHO a true waist considering it's native only to x86, but try telling 
>others that.  This would slow down a programs development cycle, but 
>would at least attract tasm users to our cause.. ;)  could also be used 
>for Linux, or even other systems.  TASM code on a SPARC? <shudder>

Good idea (except for the SPARC one :-).  Until recently, I had thought most
assemblers were like MASM, etc. -- i.e. using machine-specific opcodes and
syntax (making the faulty assumption that assembly code was just a
non-portable way to get more internal hardware access and/or speed up
functions).

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