In einer eMail vom 8/9/100 3:17:33AM, schreiben Sie: << I've used it since the early '80's but my work has hovered over the low-end capabilities of the language. Now that it's obsolete, I'm trying to make up for all the stuff I didn't learn when it was mainstream. I've had people tell me about features I've never even read about, and there are plenty of them that I haven't used and HAVE read about. It's pretty simple if not compact, to do everything with logic equations, and that's what I've always done. Now I'm trying to catch up on the built-in state-machine dialects. They use several constructs which have carried forward, somewhat, into Verilog and VHDL, but not in the same way or with the same syntax as PALASM. It occured to me that the quite modern and today mainstream language Abel has somewhat similar constructs, and is part of most modern electronic CAD systems. While having retained quite some similarity with PALASM, it may be closer to today's tools like VHDL. Regards John G. Zabolitzky