On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 11:14 AM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> Many cross-assemblers for early MPUs were written in (shudder!) FORTRAN. > There were several good reasons for this. > I think some of the old FORTRAN code for PALASM may still be around, as > an example. There is a lot of FORTRAN source code in the HP 1000 software collection on Bitsavers, including versions of PALASM20 and PALASM24 that were originally Copyright 1983 by MMI. 12025-18001_Rev-2501.src 12025-18002_Rev-2501.src Those tools were used to build some fuse maps of PAL devices on the A-Series boards. There is also FORTRAN source code for DEF29 and ASM29, a microcode meta assembler for the AMD 2900 series. Those were originally Copyright 1980 by MICROTEC, Sunnyvale CA. 24998-18643_Rev-5000.src 24998-18644_Rev-5000.src Those tools were used to build the microcode for the A600 CPUs.
