IBM PC Macro Assembler

IBM Macro Assembler was IBM's offering for the IBM PC. In comparsion to Microsoft MASM it also includes a preprocessor called SALUT (Structured Assembly Language UTilities) and was shipped with different documentation.

Version

• 1982: IBM Macro Assembler Version 1.00
• 1984: IBM Macro Assembler Version 2.00 - added support for 80286 and 8087/80287

IBM Macro Assembler/2 which also supports OS/2 was introduced in 1987.

Author

• Microsoft
• IBM

Publications

• Lafore: Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC, ISBN 0-452-25711-5
• PC Magazine 1984-10-29 p.132 Assembly by Charles Petzold

Links

• Microsoft Macro Assembler (MASM) Unofficial Changelist