[TUHS] History of m6?

Michael Kjörling michael at kjorling.se
Tue Nov 12 08:37:42 AEST 2019


On 11 Nov 2019 23:10 +0200, from arnold at skeeve.com (Arnold Robbins):
> Looking at the V3 and V4 manuals, there is a reference to the m6 macro
> processor.  The man page thereof refers to
> 
> A. D. Hall, The M6 Macroprocessor, Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1969
> 
> 2. What's the history of m6, was it written in assembler? C?

If it was from 1969, it can't realistically have been written in C,
which at that time wouldn't be around in any form for another few
years.

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