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| Original author(s) | Simon Tatham, Julian Hall |
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| Developer(s) | H. Peter Anvin, Chang Seok Bae, Jim Kukunas, Frank B. Kotler, Cyrill Gorcunov |
| Initial release | October 1996 |
| Stable release | 2.16.03[1] 
/ 17 April 2024 |
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| Written in | Assembly, C[2] |
| Operating system | Unix-like, Windows, OS/2, MS-DOS |
| Available in | English |
| Type | x86 assembler |
| License | BSD 2-clause |
| Website | www |
The Netwide Assembler (NASM) is an assembler and disassembler for the Intel x86 architecture. It can be used to write 16-bit, 32-bit (IA-32) and 64-bit (x86-64) programs. It is considered one of the most popular assemblers for Linux and x86 chips.[3]
It was originally written by Simon Tatham with assistance from Julian Hall. As of 2016[update], it is maintained by a small team led by H. Peter Anvin.[4] It is open-source software released under the terms of a simplified (2-clause) BSD license.[5]
- ^ "Release 2.16.03". 17 April 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "NASM, the Netwide Assembler". GitHub. 25 October 2021.
- ^ Ram Narayan. "Linux assemblers: A comparison of GAS and NASM". IBM. Archived from the original on 3 October 2013.
two of the most popular assemblers for Linux, GNU Assembler (GAS) and Netwide Assembler (NASM)
- ^ "The Netwide Assembler". Retrieved 27 June 2008.
- ^ "NASM Version History". Retrieved 3 August 2019.