Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Phil Budne > > I've always assumed the P in PAL was for paper tape. > > The Wikipedia artile for PDP-8 says that PAL-8 assembled from paper > > tape into memory, so the A and L could have been for Assembler and > > Loader. > > I have a number of different versions of the "PDP-11 Paper Tape > Software" manual, and the earliest one (DEC-11-GGPB-D, March '71) > turns out to be for PAL-11A, and it says it stands for "Program > Assembly Language for the PDP-11's Absolute Assembler" (pg. 3-1).
Someone with a talent for making lists (*cough*Phil*cough*) ought to compile a comprehensive table with all PAL and MACRO variants.
