> On Aug 12, 2016, at 9:28 AM, Jerome H. Fine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> V02C-02 is just one of the versions (out of about 23 versions) that are
> available on the CD image at classiccmp which is available for download.
> ...
> What I am curious about are the two files:
> ASEMBL.SAV
> EXPAND.SAV
> Did these two files do anything special?
If you have enough memory (16 kW or more, I think) then you can run MACRO, the
PDP11 macro assembler. If all you have is 8 kW, that won't work. Instead, you
use EXPAND on your MACRO-11 source code to expand the macros, and ASEMBL on the
resulting plain assembly language file. Think of it like classic C compilers
where you first run cpp to expand the preprocessor macros and then cc to
compile the resulting foo.i file.
ASEMBL is somewhat like the earlier PAL11 no-macro assembler for the PDP11
paper tape system and early (V4) DOS.
paul
