[TUHS] origin of null-terminated strings
Luther Johnson
luther at makerlisp.com
Sat Dec 17 07:18:10 AEST 2022
I used RT-11 versions 4 and 5, and I seem to remember the MACRO-11 there
had .ASCIZ.
On 12/16/2022 02:02 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 1:12 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org
> <mailto:dave at horsfall.org>> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote:
>
> > I remember running into a .asciz directive n the 70s
> “somewhere”. It was
> > an assembler directive in one of the RT11 systems??? or perhaps
> the unix
> > bootstrap and/or “.s” files - when I get some time I will go
> read some
> > old code/manuals.
>
> MACRO-11 on RSX-11D seems to ring a bell...
>
>
> I first encountered it on RSTS/E 6C in the MACRO-11 it had... But the
> v6 macro assembler from DEC via Harvard that eventually wound up in
> 2BSD is older and dates to 1977 or so.
>
> Warner
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