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From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Cross assemblers for all microprocessors.
Message-ID: <180@stl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Jun-85 05:28:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: stl.180
Posted: Sat Jun 22 05:28:30 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 00:01:13 EDT
References: <1881@ukma.UUCP> <1094@peora.UUCP>
Reply-To: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright)
Organization: STL,Harlow,UK.
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Keywords: Assembler, UCSD, Softech
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In article <1094@peora.UUCP> joel@peora.UUCP (Joel Upchurch) writes:
>> I am looking to build a collection of assemblers. 
  ...
>> 
>
>Actually I think the assembler included with the USCD Pascal
>system is machine independent 
>   ...
>I recall that someone told me that it was based on something
>called the TLA (The Last Assembler) from the University of
>Waterloo. I don't know how you would go about getting the
>source, but TLA might be in the public domain.

Yes the UCSD Assem is 'universal'; it is very easy to adapt for any
micro in the 6800/8080/6502 styles, prob pretty good for 8086/68000/etc.
too, and possible (but takes longer) for more obscure structures such as
microcode or signal processing systems.    It is certainly not Public Domain -
you have to pay Softech a licence fee - included in UCSD Pascal charge if
you just want to use it yourself, but likely to get much more expensive if
you want to sell it - even if a specially apapted version.

Some time ago I tried to find out if the original Waterloo TLA was still about
and if so if IT was public-domain, but could find nothing recent about it.
But that was before the days of The Net - does anyone out there know?