On Thu, 11 Apr 2013 08:11:19 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 4/11/2013 7:45 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> I believe LOCTR is fairly new. > >I am curious to know how Mike Shaw observed the >literals-physically-first technique implemented using 1976-era >assemblers.
See pages 4 and 6 of the Assembler H Language manual, GC26-3771-3, dated June, 1974. It is available at http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/370/asm/GC26-3771-3_asmH_Lang_Sep75.pdf -- Tom Marchant