> From: Brent Hilpert >>>> One assembler doc uses a prefix of "&o"
> So the answer is, by modern expectations the old standard would be > ambiguous or misleading. Well, the ideas of 'assembler' and 'standard' don't really go together in my mind... :-) But seriously, I don't know how many different PDP-11 assemblers there were, but the two _main_ ones (DEC's, and Unix's) both use the same numeric convention (although they differed in other ways, probably because of the CTSS/Multics erase character convention): a sequence of digits is an octal number, unless there's a trailing '.', in which case it's decimal. (Well, technically, DEC had PAL-11 and MACRO-11, but PAL-11 was basically a subset of MACRO-11, and used the same number syntax.) I've never heard of that '&o' bizzaro-stuff - where did you find that? Noel