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From: CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com <(CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com)>
Date: Sat Jun 19 07:30:11 1999

>> Ah, but does this not actually fall under the same catagory as the above
>> comments about UNIX? Or does RT-11 ship with more than Macro-11? You
>>kind
>> of have to have Macro-11 in order to run a SYSGEN I believe.

>True, but a fair amount of development work is/was done with MACRO-11.

That's an understatement. Compared with a PC-clone or Unixy
assemblers, the expansive abilities of a true Macro assembler are
astounding. Think of Macro-11 not so much as an assembler, but as a
completely extensible language. Many other architectures have
similarly powerful macro assemblers.

Unfortunately, folks these days think of "macros" in relation to programming
as being limited to what 'cpp' is capable of.

Tim.
Received on Sat Jun 19 1999 - 07:30:11 BST