Re: IFOX00/ASMH (Was: Baseless problem)
And there was also HSK - the assembler generator. You can read a little about it here: http://www.romanredz.se/cv.htm#ibm (Roman's history with IBM - it's rather interesting). We used HSK at IBM Hursley for a few projects, notably to create an assembler for the Motorola 68xx family. I still have the HSK source stashed away somewhere. Ray... On 4/11/2013 15:46, John Ehrman wrote: I gave a short talk on Assembler History at the San Francisco SHARE conference; look for the proceedings of session 12235. John Ehrman
Re: IFOX00/ASMH (Was: Baseless problem)
I recall that one time when we reported an error to IBM where an ASSEMBLER module was involved, we got the simple and short answer Customer should not use ASSEMBLER I don't recall what the problem was, maybe something involving DB2 and the DB2 precompiler for ASSEMBLER ... Am 11.04.2013 21:46, schrieb John Ehrman: So internal politics is correct -- some IBM execs apparently believed that PL/I would satisfy all future programming needs, and that Assembler applications would disappear shortly.
