Turbo Assembler

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The Turbo Assembler (TASM) mainly PC-targeted assembler package was Borland's offering in the x86 assembler programming tool market. As one would expect, TASM worked well with Borland's high-level language compilers for the PC, such as Turbo C and Turbo Pascal. Along with the rest of the Turbo suite, Turbo Assembler is no longer maintained.

The Turbo Assembler package came bundled with the linker Turbo Linker, and was interoperable with the Turbo Debugger debugger. For compatibility with the common Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM), TASM was able to assemble such source code files via its MASM mode. It also had an ideal mode that enabled a few enhancements.

TASM 3.0 supports high-level features such as objects so it enables object-oriented programming.

Turbo Assembler also refers to a common Commodore 64-based 6502 assembler created by the German company Omikron in 1985. It is not related to Borland's work.

[edit] References

Swan, Tom (1989). Mastering Turbo Assembler. Carmel, Indiana: Howard W. Sams & Company, Hayden Books division of Macmillan Computer Publishing. ISBN 0-672-48435-8. 2nd Edition, 1995 ISBN 0-672-30526-7.