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+# -*- sh -*- 
+# See http://rigaux.org/language-study/diagram.html for the format of this file
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Assemblers lineage (x86 assemblers mostly)
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_assemblers
+#src: wikipedia articles on different programs
+# at least the ones listed in the box at
+# https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:X86_assembly_topics
+#src: infoworld magazine ads found via Google
+
+#part of a compiler suite:
+# - as/ld/cc (but actually there was an 'as' long before a 'cc' and even 'ld')
+# - 5a/5l/5cc
+# - gas/GNU ld/gcc
+# - llvm-mc/lld/llvm-clang
+# - asxxxx/aslink/sdcc (but independent originally of sdcc)
+# - as86/ld86/bcc
+# - em_ass/led/ack
+# - MASM (?)/Linker?/C? (there was probably MASM long before C compiler)
+# - TASM (?)/Turbo Linker/Turbo Pascal (but TASM long after?)
+# - !!fbas/fbld??/fbcc!! (not in diagram)
+
+#part of native-targeted:
+# - Go/2a/5a/... (5l)
+# - Free Pascal?
+# - SBCL?
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Pre-Historical (DEC)
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#IBM 701 first symbolic assembler?
+#  1952
+#src: https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_page.php?id=7209
+# by Nathaniel Rochester
+
+#A-0 first assembler/linker?
+#  1952
+#src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_System
+
+#Tons of assemblers already in 1957
+#src:http://shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com/2017/05/21/evidence-for-28-possible-compilers-in-1957/
+# they use 'assembler' for 'linker/loader', and 'compiler' for 'assembler' :)
+
+
+PAL11R
+  1971
+  #DEC-provided assembler for PDP11
+  #manual: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_decpdp11do11RAssemblerProgrammersManualMay71_2572677
+MACRO-11
+  1975
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Historical (UNIX)
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# Ken thompson had a PDP-7 assembler (without any linker, and generated a.out)
+
+*as
+  1971
+  PAL11R
+  SY:2
+#as UNIX v1
+#...
+#as UNIX v7 (still in assembly)
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Open source (GNU)
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+*gas
+  as
+  1986
+  SY:2
+gas 2.0
+  1993
+  # use BFD and started ELF support
+
+*as86
+  1991
+  SY:2
+  #date: copyright in informagic/bin86/.../as.c says 1992, but I've found some
+  # as86 binaries dating back to 1991, and some of its files dates back to 1989
+  # wikipedia article comparing assemblers says 88
+
+
+*ASxxxx
+  1989
+  #date: see copyright
+  #src: http://web.mit.edu/~6.121j/arch/i386_rhel4/versions/sdcc/2.5.0/share/sdcc/doc/aslink/asxhtm.html
+  # says derived from DECUS from PDP11 assembler :)
+  # part of SDCC now
+  PAL11R
+ASxxxx 1.5
+  1990
+  #src: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/academic/computer-science/history/pdp-11/decus/110918.html
+ASxxxx 2.0
+  1998
+  #src: http://web.mit.edu/~6.121j/arch/i386_rhel4/versions/sdcc/2.5.0/share/sdcc/doc/aslink/asxhtm.html
+ASxxxx 5.10
+  2014
+
+sdas
+  ASxxxx
+  # sdcc's assembler
+
+ASMXXX
+  ASxxxx 5.10
+  # on github
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Plan9
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+*2a/5a/8a/...
+  1993
+  as
+  SY:1
+  # there was no 5a yet in 1993 (there was 2a/6a/8a/ka/va/za)
+Inferno assemblers
+  1996
+  # mostly unchanged I think (contains also an asm/ written in Limbo)
+*Go assemblers
+  2009
+  # originally still in C, but rewritten in Go in 2016?
+
+
+5a in OCaml
+  2015
+  2a/5a/8a/...
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Educational
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+*mixal
+  1968
+  # not really an assembler at that time, mixal by ESR first is 1998
+*mmixal
+  1999
+  SY:2
+#GNU mdk
+# 2002
+
+fbas
+  1996
+  # from fbcc
+
+s86
+  1993
+  # from subc
+
+*yasp
+  2013
+  # web-based with IDE and debugger, great for teaching
+
+spim
+  1990
+  #date: see copyright
+  #weird mix assembler/simulator
+
+pep/8 assembler
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Post-2000
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+*LLVM-mc
+  2010
+  SY:2
+
+*WebAssembly
+  2017
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Industry (mostly x86)
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# Intel provided assembler? mother of all?
+
+A86
+  1980
+  SY:6
+  #date: shareware, not exact date
+A386
+  1995
+  SY:6
+  #date: not exact date
+
+
+*MASM
+  1981
+  SY:6
+#Visual Studio
+  #  19??
+
+*TASM
+  1989
+  MASM
+  SY:6
+  #date: ad in infoworld Sep12 1988 though, but wikipedia says 1989
+  # it followed Turbo Pascal/Prolog/C, not the reverse.
+
+*WASM
+ 1991
+ MASM
+ SY:6
+ # Watcom
+
+
+MPW assembler
+# Mac? Programmer's workbench
+
+
+*ACK em_ass
+  1987
+  SY:6
+ACK em_ass open source
+  2003
+
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Other
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+*NASM
+  1996
+  MASM,TASM
+  SY:2
+
+*YASM
+  2002
+  NASM
+  # history provided here: http://yasm.tortall.net/Download.html
+  # modular assembler (can be used as a library by compilers), retargatable
+
+*FASM
+  2000
+  NASM
+  # has IDE
+
+*vasm
+  2002
+  gas
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Exotic
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ARB Assembly language
+  # for openGL, shader, ancestor of GLSL 
+
+HLA
+
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# TODO?
+#--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+GoAsm
+  2001
+  # not related to golang