Old Borland®/Inprise® Assembler Features

This document lists brief descriptions of current and older Borland assemblers for the PC, along with notes and a brief list of features. While you may find older versions of development tools in many places, links to the old/used programming tools sales pages of EMS Professional Software, this page's sponsor, are provided for your convenience. EMS is not affiliated with Borland, Inprise, or any other vendor. All terms on this page are trademarks of Borland, Inprise or other companies. 

Turbo Assembler 1.x
Turbo Assembler 2.0x
Turbo Assembler 2.5x
Turbo Assembler 3.0
Turbo Assembler 4.0x
Turbo Assembler 5.0x

Third party books

 

Borland Turbo Assembler 1.0
Turbo Assembler & Debugger 1.0, 5.25" disks with order form for 3.5". Box has white label with PN: 15FGAD10-10. Box printed ISBN 0-87524-202-2, PART #15PK-ASD03-10. MASM compatible (4.0, 5.0 and 5.1). Significant new assembly language extensions. Easy interfacing with high-level languages including Turbo-C and Turbo Pascal. Full 386 support. Turbo Debugger has EMS support, remote debugging and 386 virtual machine debugging, so there's no limit to the size of program you can debug. Supports CodeView and MAP compatible programs.


Turbo Assembler 1.01, 360K disk labeled PART# 15LB-ASD01 BOR 0855 with files dated 5/2/89 1:01:00am. Also includes three Turbo Debugger disks, probably version 1.5x.
Probably includes some of these manuals:
Turbo Assembler User’s Guide, PART# 15MN-ASD01-10 BOR 0851 (582 pages)
Turbo Assembler Reference Guide, PART# 15MN-ASD02-10 BOR 0852  (297 pages)
Turbo Debugger User’s Guide, PART# 15MN-ASD03-10 BOR 0847 (355 pages) 
Quick Reference Guide, PART# 15MN-ASD05-25 BOR 1482B


Borland Turbo Debugger
Turbo Debugger 2.0. Box label reads:
DOS
Includes 5.25" Disk Set & Coupon for 3.5" Disks
Item: 15FG-ASD 0-20
Version 2.0
MO: 069203 M:030
SEQH:000000


Turbo Assembler 2.5 (buy it)

I've seen the following manuals, but don't know what package they came from:

Turbo Assembler 2.5 User's Guide, 495 pages, PART # 15MN-ASD03-25 BOR 1491A © 1988, 1991
Turbo Debugger 2.5 User's Guide, 427 pages, PART # 15MN-ASD01-25 BOR 1489A © 1988, 1991
Turbo Profiler 1.1 User's Guide, 195 pages, PART # 15MN-ASD02-25 BOR 1483A © 1990, 1991


© 1993

System Requirements:
IBM PC-compatible PC running DOS 3.31 or higher
Minimum 2 MB memory and 1 MB disk space required for 16-bit development
Minimum 8 MB memory and 2 MB disk space required for 32-bit development

Package Includes:
3.5" software disks and manuals


Borland Turbo Assembler 4.0
Turbo Assembler 4.0 (for DOS or Windows), Four 1.44MB diskettes and the following materials:
Quick Reference, 154 pages, Part #LSM1240WW21771 BOR 6285
User's Guide, 347 pages, Part #LSM1240WW21770 BOR 6284
Turbo Debugger User's Guide, 216 pages, Part #BCP1240WW21775 BOR 6335


Borland Turbo Assembler 5.0
Turbo Assembler 5.0, © 1996, 3 1.44MB diskettes and the following manuals:
Quick Reference 156pp
Turbo Assembler User's Guide 290pp
Turbo Debugger User's Guide 184pp

System Requirements:
IBM PC-compatible PC running DOS 3.31 or higher
Minimum 2 MB memory and 1 MB disk space required for 16-bit development
Minimum 8 MB memory and 2 MB disk space required for 32-bit development

The TASM and TLINK that came with C++ Builder are the 32-bit versions (TASM32 and TLINK32). The separate TASM product is both 16-bit and 32-bit. The manuals will cover both, sometimes without making the distinction clear, and the initial examples will all be 16-bit.


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