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From: c164-bd@cinna.uucp (John D. Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Assembler Complaints
Summary: Switch Assemblers
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Date: 20 Nov 90 04:11:05 GMT
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In article <WEISS.90Nov19164930@toucan.lcs.mit.edu> weiss@theory.lcs.mit.edu (Paul G. Weiss) writes:
>Here are two things that I don't like about the Microsoft Assembler.  If
>someone from M-Soft is listening can you tell me if the latest version
>fixes these problems.
>
>First of all, the version that I am using is 5.10A.

I'd suggest that you switch to another assembler (such as OPTASM or
Borland's TASM).  Masm (from what I have heard second hand) isn't 
even written in 80x86 assembly language.  It's written in 'C'.
Both OPTASM (by SLR Systems) and TASM (v2.0) are at least two or
three times as fast as MASM, produce better code, and have more
useful features.

Good luck,
	John D. Mitchell
	johnm@cory.Berkeley.EDU