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From: jmorriso@snickers.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
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Subject: Sass vs ASAP
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Date: 15 Nov 90 18:43:33 GMT
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As far as I know, there are two assemblers for the Saturn processor:
Sass which I believe was the first, and ASAP which was written later.

Most people seem  to be posting code in ASAP form. Although the mnemonics
are the same, there might be differences in assembler directives.

Could someone mention why they are using ASAP instead of Sass? Is it better?
As far as I know it is written in PERL, and runs on  Unix workstations only.

Sass however is self contained. It is written in yacc and lex, and the c
source code generated compiles on anything . I know  that it runs on unix
and the  ibm pc.