Re: ASM2ZAP (Was: Re: assembly-language coding conventions)

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From: David Cole
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:51

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, my first encounter with an ASM2ZAP
was a PL/I version written by Howard Gilbert of Yale University, and
that dates back to the mid '70s. I never heard of an "Amdahl version"
until mention of it was made on this thread.

-Dave Cole


At 9/15/2005 12:36 PM, you wrote:
>Peter,
>
>Do you know if any of the Amdahl Tools (copyrighted) can now be
>distributed via the freeware sites, like the CBT tape?
>
>Regards,
>John Kalinich
>
>
>
>
>
>Peter <PeterH5322@aol.com>
>Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER-LIST 09/15/2005 11:01 AM
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>>BTW: In the source, the initials "DKC" are my daughter Deborah's.
>>She worked for me for a couple of years in the late '90s, and it
>>looks like she produced the ASM2ZAP source from a disassembly of
>>something older. She's now moved on to better things, belly
>>dancing, real estate and child rearing. [;)]
>
>ASM2ZAP was in use at Amdahl Corporation for at least as long as I worked
>there, which was from 1977 to its demise.
>
>That "something older", referred to above, could have been Amdahl's
>internal tool, which we undoubtedly shared with our field SEs, and
>perhaps even with some of our customer's sysprogs, both on a
>case-by-case basis.

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