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I'm required to do a bit of Assembly (TASM) at my uni - what future uses does it have?

Correct me if I'm wrong but TASM is very outdated isn't it?

10th Jan 2018, 2:24 AM
Rhyder Quinlan
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TASM is 29 years old. Perhaps there's a DOSbox emulator (lots of people love it), old equipment or 'know your history for perspective' involved. Perspective from the other direction: I believe the 16-bit subsystem (from Windows 3.x) has been treated as a legacy component from Windows 7 forward (it lives in the NTVDM: Virtual DOS Machine). Then, in Windows 10 it's never installed; you can add support back only if the OS is 32-bit. 64-bit machines must emulate a 32-bit subsystem, then the emulation must emulate a 16-bit subsystem -- which is incomplete. Microsoft is known for long, drawn-out backward compatibility; I would take this as a very strong indicator of the industry.
10th Jan 2018, 5:12 AM
Kirk Schafer
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TASM can be outdated..because our board's(MSBTE) prescribed curriculum has many such softwares to learn which are outdated...
10th Jan 2018, 3:57 AM
$hardul B
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yes @jamie 32 bit was the possible but 64 bit can be possible if his brains are sharp enough for almost having lengthy codes.
10th Jan 2018, 3:04 AM
Yesh Jadav
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