Noel Chiappa wrote: > > What's the difference between PAL-11 and MACRO-11? > Without going through the manuals at length, basically MACRO-11 supports > macros, and PAL-11 doesn't. The syntax is otherwise very similar.
So I wonder if this holds true in general, PAL are simpler assemblers without macros? > > PALX is also the name for a cross assembler targeting PDP-11. > I know it was used on ITS (although the PALX source had assembly > options for all the main PDP-10 OS's, except TOPS-10), was that where > it was written, do you happen to know? It's in MIDAS, so probably... http://www.saildart.org/PRUNE.DAT[1,3] says: PALX ... MIT'S PDP-11 ASSEMBLER