Thanks to all.
To Santosh: Yes, two examples were Herbert Kleebauer's posted code,
but I have seen others, Someone told me Intel used a similar syntax.
Borland once gave me full set of every single product they sold; I
suspect this is where I got, and used, TASM. Somehow the directory
disappeared on both my mirror drives.
Perhaps I should have asked "where can I find, on-line, a compact how-
to-use do***ent on MASM"?
Which assembler I had since 1981, but currently have a 1990 version
4.00 that I normally use (apart from the other later versions). I tend
to stick with what I know well...
I DO have my 1986 Burroughs BTOS assembler manual which is X86
specific, but it doesn't cover my questions.
Bob Masta: Yes, I have MASM32, but I spend more time on DOS-targeted
software. I suppose I need an assembler for each major use category.
Wolfgang Kern: It seems Wolfgang has seen this numeric-named register
usage syntax elsewhere too; I wasn't sure if this was or was not
Herbert's personal syntax. But I didn't come upon it by disassembly,
but from correspondance by the authors, modifiers or commentors. I'm
sure it isn't the variant Wolfgang mentions.
It's an interesting syntax, but even if registers are interchangeable
in usage, it is far easier to have a named reference than a numbered
reference, so I propose to quickly write a to-from parser between my
preferred ASM reference usage and the rn, sn syntax
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