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Subject: Re: help for new assembly'er
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Date: 4 Mar 91 12:34:16 GMT
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 On Sun, 3 Mar 91, chinet!laird@GARGOYLE.UCHICAGO.EDU said:
>During my first class in BAL, the assistant (who was grading all of the
>exercises) said "always use PRINT GEN" to which the instructor said
>"you mean, never use PRINT GEN".  I tend to the "always" mode.

    If the class was really BAL, then why were you using PRINT GEN?

    Note: The last S/360 BAL that IBM had was for the S/360-20.
 Later, when IBM came out with the MACRO Assemblers, they called
 them Full Assemblers.

    Classes that teach assembler without teaching macros are still
 called BAL, even though there has never been a S/370 BAL product.