How many versions of assembly are thier for windows?

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Request for Question Clarification by mathtalk-ga on 30 Apr 2003 19:09 PDT

Hi, trent44-ga:

Is there a specific version of Windows you are concerned with?

regards, mathtalk-ga

There are three main assemblers that are still avaliable that can be
used to make programs for MS Windows.

MASM - Macro Assembler from Microsoft, bundled with Microsoft Visual
C++
http://www2.dgsys.com/~raymoon/faq/masm.txt

TASM - Turbo Assembler from Borland, bundled with Borland C++ bulider
http://www2.dgsys.com/~raymoon/faq/tasm.html

Once these products were seperate products.  The decline in popularity
of Assembly Language has resulted in them being bundled with C/C++
compliers.

The other popular assembler is
A86/386 - A free assembler avaliable at http://eji.com/a86/index.htm

It is possible to use GAS the GNU Assembler with MS Windows but it is
a bit of a hassle to do so.

Additionally most C and C++ compliers (as well as compliers for some
other languages) allow you to inline assembly language into them.