18 Oct
2011
18 Oct
'11
1:20 p.m.
From: Toby Thain
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 4:09 PM
On 17/10/11 5:36 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
> On the PDP-6 (and its successor, the PDP-10),
there are 2 pseudo-ops
> to create a string of ASCII characters in memory, "ASCII" and
"ASCIZ".
These directives also exist in MACRO-11 on the PDP-11,
and MACRO-32
(VAX-11, Alpha and Itanium).
Yes, taken from the predecessor systems. The PDP numbering is consistent,
a consistency lost in the 1970s.
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
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