Turbo Assembler

Turbo Assembler (sometimes shortened to the name of the executable, TASM) is an <a href="/facts/Assembly_language/7XuV0cla">assembler</a> for software development published by <a href="/facts/Borland/crI5pTzW">Borland</a> in 1989. It runs on and produces code for 16- or 32-bit <a href="/facts/X86/Kypq5fgu">x86</a> <a href="/facts/MS-DOS/fVrrz1uN">MS-DOS</a> and compatibles for <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Windows/bwhAhuSL">Microsoft Windows</a>. It can be used with Borland's other language products: <a href="/facts/Turbo_Pascal/2aWFEk9z">Turbo Pascal</a>, <a href="/facts/Turbo_Basic/4wWmTPIH">Turbo Basic</a>, <a href="/facts/Turbo_C/guLaLnDR">Turbo C</a>, and <a href="/facts/Turbo_C%2B%2B/TPHUyCaR">Turbo C++</a>. The Turbo Assembler package is bundled with Turbo <a href="/facts/Linker_(computing)/pn1hztYe">Linker</a> and is interoperable with <a href="/facts/Turbo_Debugger/MquAFmr1">Turbo Debugger</a>.
Borland advertised Turbo Assembler as being 2-3 times faster than its primary competitor, <a href="/facts/Microsoft_Macro_Assembler/7WavMJEo">Microsoft Macro Assembler</a> (MASM). TASM can assemble source in a MASM-compatible mode or an ideal mode with a few enhancements. <a href="/facts/Object-Oriented_programming/TxNMEcao">Object-Oriented programming</a> was added in version 3. The last version of Turbo Assembler is 5.4, with files dated 1996 and patches up to 2010; it is still included with <a href="/facts/Embarcadero_Delphi/sUFUXQ8r">Delphi</a> and <a href="/facts/C%2B%2BBuilder/293I0the">C++Builder</a>.
TASM itself is a 16-bit program. It will run on 16- and 32-bit versions of Windows, and produce code for the same versions, but it does not generate 64-bit x86 code. Turbo Assembler 5.0 (at least) also contains a 32-bit PE version of tasm called TASM32.EXE.

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Turbo Assembler