> But because of its time period, the built-in assembler only ever understood up to 80286 instructions, so the day you wanted a 386 and its 32-bit registers you were sent off to an external assembler anyway.

Or you just prefixed the instructions with "db $66", et voila your instructions were 32bit. I wrote a lot of inline 32bit assembly that way in TP 6.0 and 7.0.