10 Aug
2015
10 Aug
'15
2:04 p.m.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 01:24:41PM -0700, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
I think there might be enough there to IPL and perform
a basic installation,
but what immediately caught my attention was the mention that sites had to
purchase ASMH from IBM, which leads me to believe the public distributions
don't contain an assembler.
I assume you're saying that the real MTS sites bought *ASMH back in the
old days, not that it's possible for mere mortals to buy a license for
home emulator use nowadays at a finite price?
I'd love to be wrong (and I'd gladly pay four digits, as long as it's
one-time and not per-year). It'd be hard to get very far w/o *ASMH
(it's horrible but it's the standard, and MTS had plenty of languages
I miss less), and writing a clean/legal reimplementaation now would only
take, say, 5000 person-years.
John Wilson
USERHA8G at RPITSMTS.Bitnet