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From: ns@maccs.UUCP (Nicholas Solntseff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.edu,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Teaching Assembler on VAX (BSD 4.3)
Message-ID: <593@maccs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-May-87 15:25:15 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 17 15:25:15 1987
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References: <351@aucs.UUCP> <588@maccs.UUCP> <234@brandx.rutgers.edu>
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In article <234@brandx.rutgers.edu> webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber) writes:
>In article <588@maccs.UUCP>, ns@maccs.UUCP (Nicholas Solntseff) writes:
>> 
>> There is NO macro assembler available for the VAX (unlike the PDP-11).  I 
>
>Now that is a real puzzler.  Did you try:  man -k macro
>which should have turned up m4.  Granted it isn't as fancy as SAIL
>
What I meant to say was that there is no equivalent of ms (as opposed to as)
for BSD4.x Unix.

I did look at m4, but it is really geared to C and did not really address the
problem of sophomore students learning a very user-unfriendly assembler.