Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site aesat.UUCP Path: utzoo!aesat!rwh From: rwh@aesat.UUCP (Russell Herman) Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm Subject: Re: assembler reviews - (nf) Message-ID: <161@aesat.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Jun-84 21:42:06 EDT Article-I.D.: aesat.161 Posted: Sun Jun 3 21:42:06 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 4-Jun-84 05:15:08 EDT References: <36100080@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: AES Data Inc., Mississauga Ont., Canada Lines: 23 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 / \ {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!aesat!rwh @( ? ? )@ ( || ) The opinions above are strictly personal, and ( \__/ ) do not reflect those of my employer (or even \____/ possibly myself an hour from now.)