Those macros were not part of the assembler. As I recall there was a popular macro package called CONCEPT 101 (sp?) floating around, and another package called PROC, but they didn't come from IBM.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mike Schwab [mike.a.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 1:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: C I was doing an internship in the Chicago area during the summer of 1984. They were using an assembler with IF macros. On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:11 PM Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > > HLASM in 1980? Not before June 1992. I assume that you were using XF and H, > possibly with the SLAC mods on the latter (thank you, Greg and John.) > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > Donald Blake [dhbl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:51 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: C > > I took my first C course in 1980. The text was the original *The C > programming Language* by Kerrigan and Richie, which I still have on my > shelf, The text is copyright 1978. That's 42 years ago. I was an IBM HL > Assembler programmer at the time. BTW ... we still were using IFOX00 at the > time as well. > > > Hey, it's not politically correct to point out how old C is. > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN