Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!decwrl!decvax!zinn!mem From: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: Re: Anyone heard of SLR Systems? Message-ID: <557@zinn.MV.COM> Date: 5 Jun 89 06:30:13 GMT References: Reply-To: mem@zinn.MV.COM (Mark E. Mallett) Organization: Zinn Computer Co., Litchfield NH Lines: 35 In article A.L.Dennis@DURHAM.AC.UK.at.pucc.PRINCETON.EDU writes: >Does anybody out there know of SLR Systems who produce a Z80 assembler >called Z80ASM (it's not Z80ASM24.LBR !!!) and also an >associated linker (SLRLNK?). I ask on REDUG because somebody has >recently requested Z8E35.ARK and i'm hoping that person (or anyone >else!) might know. I suspect that EVERYBODY reading this newsgroup knows of SLR systems. I switched to the SLR assembler for a number of reasons. One, that it didn't force the "-$" construction on PC-relative branches (what's an assembler for, anyway, if you have to explicitly calculate the relative offsets???). But the biggest factor was its speed. I clocked it at around 23,000 lines per minute. At this speed, mammoth assemblies aren't a problem. I had gone to great pains to make my TED editor modular, for incremental assemblies; but with SLR, I could assemble the whole thing as a unit, and generate a .COM file, in less time than I could assemble a single module with any other assembler. In fact, I bought ECO-C primarily because it came bundled with a version of the SLR assembler. The latest address I have for SLR (1984) is: SLR Systems 1622 N. Main Street Butler PA 16001 (412) 282 0864 -mm- -- Mark E. Mallett Zinn Computer Co/ PO Box 4188/ Manchester NH/ 03103 Bus. Phone: 603 645 5069 Home: 603 424 8129 BIX: mmallett uucp: mem@zinn.MV.COM ( ...{decvax|elrond|harvard}!zinn!mem ) Northern MA and Southern NH consultants: Ask (in mail!) about MV.COM