[TUHS] Some resources for V6/PDP/SIMH newbs like me

Will Senn will.senn at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 05:45:18 AEST 2017



On 11/20/2017 01:31 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>      > From: Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com>
>
>      > To bone up on assembly language, Lions's commentary is exceptionally
>      > helpful in explaining assembly as it is implemented in V6. The manual
>      > itself is really thin
>
> Err, which manual are you referring to there? Not the "UNIX Assembler
> Reference Manual":
>
>    http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/doc/as/as
>
> I would assume, but the 'as(I)' page in the UPM?
>
> 	Noel

The UNIX Assembler Reference Manual winds up as 10 printed pages, the 
as(I) page is, well, as you put it, 1 page, printed. Both are a bit thin 
by my reckoning. :). That said, Lions words about assembly are pretty 
few, too. But, he is addressing an aspect that was not addressed in 
either of the manual's entries and is very helpful for making the 
translation between PDP-11 Macro Assembler and unix as.

Will



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