Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:44:10 -0500
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <2717EA92180@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk> (A.APPLEYARD@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk)
Subject: Re: DJGPP and TASM?


> > ... we have *lots* of assembler code in our products (ove 40,000 lines in
> > the MGL for DOS graphics library) and all this assembler is written with
> > TASM....
> 
>   How did djgpp's gas's assembler format get the reverse order from some other
> PC assemblers in the first place???

The real question is, "Why did masm/tasm ignore the prevailing
standards and choose an incompatible assembler syntax?"  Unix is older
than MS-DOS.