And there was also HSK - the assembler generator. You can read a little
about it here: http://www.romanredz.se/cv.htm#ibm (Roman's history with
IBM - it's rather interesting).
We used HSK at IBM Hursley for a few projects, notably to create an
assembler for the Motorola 68xx family. I still have
I recall that one time when we reported an error to IBM where
an ASSEMBLER module was involved, we got the simple and short answer
"Customer should not use ASSEMBLER"
I don't recall what the problem was, maybe something involving DB2 and the
DB2 precompiler for ASSEMBLER ...
Am 11.04.2013 21:4
Tony Harminc commented:
It's worth remembering that ASMH predates IFOX00. (Well, as far as
customer availability goes; I have no idea what went on inside IBM.)
I have never understood the point of IFOX00; it appears to be a
reimplemention from scratch to the IEUASM specs, with a couple of
trivial
