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From: rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russell Herman)
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Subject: Re: assembler reviews - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 3-Jun-84 21:42:06 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  3 21:42:06 1984
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I'm a very satisfied user of PAL64 (which is sold both separately and in
combination with POWER64 as TOOLBOX64). It's reasonably fast, compiles
to disk or core, save/loads symbol tables, provides symbolic links
(SYS "LABEL") between your basic programs and assembled subroutines
(REALLY NICE), works with tape-only systems, is extensible, and is
well-documented in an 80 page manual of 5-1/2" square pages. It doesn't
have the macro capability of MAE, and its conditional assembly is
primitive (.IF expr1:.GOTO expr2, where expr1 evaluates to 0 (false) or
non-0 (true), and expr2 evaluates to a line number). You simply type
in your program under the BASIC line editor.

Before that, I bought HESBAL. A total waste of money as far as I was
concerned.

I'd recommend getting it as the TOOLBOX package; the wedge and  supplement
in POWER are worth having.
-- 
  ______			Russ Herman
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