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- A86/D86 Assembler by Eric Issacson REGISTRATION $ 50.00
- LANG MAR90 A86 D86 ISSACSON ASSEMBLER COMPILER
- FILES: a86-d86.sdn
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- A86 is the finest assembler available, at any cost under any
- terms, for the 86-family of microprocessors (IBM-PC,
- compatibles, and not-so-compatibles). In contrast to
- software firms who attempt to restrict the distribution of
- their products via protection-schemes, I encourage free
- distribution, and trust that those who use my products will
- pay for them.
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- A86 accepts assembly language source files, and transforms
- them directly into either: (1) .COM files executable under
- MS-DOS, starting at offset 0100 within a code segment; (2)
- .OBJ files suitable for feeding to a linker; or (3) object
- files starting at offset 0, suitable for copying to ROMs.
- A86 is a full featured, professional quality program. I
- designed A86 to be as closely compatible to the standard
- Intel/IBM assembly language as possible, given that I
- insisted upon making design and language enhancements
- necessary to make A86 the best possible assembler. Some of
- A86's most notable features are:
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- * A86 is blazingly fast-- 4 times as fast as MASM V5.1. In
- the best conditions (large program, 8MHz AT, RAM drive) A86
- assembles at a rate of over a thousand lines per second.
- That's per second. NOT per minute, per second.
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- * A86 is simple to use. You can feed it a program containing
- just machine instructions, without the red tape (NAME,
- ASSUME, SEGMENT PARA PUBLIC, PROC, ENDP, END, PUBLIC,
- EXTRN, etc. etc.) necessary with other assemblers. The
- output of A86 can be a .COM file, ready to execute
- immediately. You don't have to go through a linker.
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- * In spite of its simplicity, A86 encourages modular
- programming, even in its .COM mode, with
- separately-developed source files.
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- * A86 has ample capacity for really large programming
- projects.
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- * A86 has language extension features that, once you start
- using, you'll never want to do without.
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- * A86's macro processor is the best, achieving an optimal
- balance between ease of use and raw power.
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- * A86 provides clear, English error messages, given right at
- the point in the source code where A86 detected the error.
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- * A86 provides a full complement of assembly time expression
- arithmetic operators, compatible with Intel/IBM
- assemblers.
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- * A86 assembles the floating point instruction set of the
- 8087/287/387/IIT coprocessors, and the extended instruction
- set of the 186/286/NEC series, including the NEC-unique
- instructions.
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- * A86 has a built-in source file library feature. Any
- undefined symbols in your program are automatically
- searched for in a special library file A86.LIB, and the
- associated source files are automatically assembled.
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- * A86 works with an associated symbolic debugger, D86, to
- make the finest development environment available for the
- PC. See the D86 package for the details of its features.
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