Tony Harminc wonders...
I can only guess at the internal politics in play at the time that must have led to this project, when ASMH already existed and offered so much more. IBM's usual internal competition, I suppose, but in such a small subject area...
AFAIR... core..! hmm "virtual memory", sysgens and $$$ With the arrival of the 512K 370/155 our boss allowed a partition size increase from 80K to 128K. Then the DAT-box and SVS. IFOX00 worked but was awefully slow. ASMH costed money and needed 200K+ to assemble anything substantial. The free ASMG from University of Waterloo became our saviour. FWIW, more details in this post by Peter, dated 29 Mar 2008 18:40 here: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.hercules390.mvs/6553 A lot of "oddball"-stuff of today was shaped by the physical (and IBMs legal!) constraints at the time it was conceived. Andreas F. Geissbuehler
