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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: MPW Assembler vs MDS
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Date: 21 Jun 89 11:03:41 GMT
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In article <3983@tank.uchicago.edu> ra_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
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>I've heard that there are some features in MPW Assembly that aren't available
>in MDS.  Along with learning the 68k Mac stuff, I'm interested in learning
>"practical development skills", i.e. techniques specific to MPW, etc.  Is MPW
>much different from MDS?

	The 68000 syntax is by and large the same, but MPW's assembler provides
support for the 68020,  68030, 68881/2, and 68851, which the Consulair
assembler doesn't. Also, the MPW .O format is becoming a standard object file
format, and may development systems (THINK C and THINK Pascal among them)
understand it. (THINK Pascal 2.0 in fact allows you to add .O files directly
to a project, and will convert them on the fly.)

	MPW provides tools to convert assembly sources from TLA and MDS
formats to the MPW syntax. (Quick Quiz: how many people here know what
"TLA" stands for?)

		-R.

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 Rich Siegel
 Staff Software Developer
 Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
 Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu
 UUCP: ..harvard!endor!siegel

 I classify myself as a real developer because my desk is hip-deep in
 assembly-language listings and I spend more than 50% of my time in TMON.

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