Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!think!leander.think.com!ephraim
From: ephraim@leander.think.com (Ephraim Vishniac)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Simple assembler
Message-ID: <32783@news.Think.COM>
Date: 10 Jan 90 15:01:27 GMT
References: <1990Jan9.185525.19731@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Sender: news@Think.COM
Reply-To: ephraim@leander.think.com.UUCP (Ephraim Vishniac)
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Lines: 25

In article <1990Jan9.185525.19731@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@Kermit.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes:
>
>Does anyone have recommendations for a good but reasonably simple
>assembler for the Mac (i.e., without requiring the kind of overhead
>needed for MPW)?

(I tried to mail this, but the mailer went berserk, looping among
pescadero, mickey, and kermit.stanford.edu.)

Two possibilities:

1. THINK C.  Yes, it's a C compiler, but just say asm { } and it's
a decent assembler.  $149 at MacConnection.

2. MDS.  Old and crufty, but it still works.  (Sort of.  I'm using
2.0, which is a bit outdated, and it doesn't get along well with
Multifinder.  It even dies occasionally without it, but not so often
that I care much.) Used to be sold by Apple, then APDA, now back home
with Consulair.  About $80, if I remember right.  I'm not sure where
you can find it except direct from Consulair. 

Ephraim Vishniac    ephraim@think.com   ThinkingCorp@applelink.apple.com
 Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142
        One of the flaws in the anarchic bopper society was
        the ease with which such crazed rumors could spread.