[Info-vax] iomacs.mlb

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/21/19 4:37 PM, Dennis Boone wrote:
>   > Does anyone have this library?
>   > It's for compiling mar.
> 
> One textbook I remember (I likely recall the 1st ed, rather than
> the 2nd):
> 
> 	Baase, Sara.  VAX-11 Assembly Language Programming.  Englewood
> 	Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1992.  ISBN 0139421521.
> 
> had a little macro library in an appendix designed to avoid students
> having to deal with all of the details from the outset.  It's probably
> far from the only textbook with a similar sort of crutch.
> 
> If the Baase book has the right library, you could type it in from
> the copy on archive.org:
> 
> https://archive.org/details/vax11assemblylan00baas
> 
> If it was another book, perhaps your memories can tell you which one.
> Most of these books can be found used, if not in a library somewhere.
> Some may even have (illicit?) pdf copies floating around the net,
> though the Baase book doesn't have a trivially findable one.
> 
> A few possible textbooks:
> 
>    * Robert Sebesta - Vax Structured Assembly Language Programming
>    * Edward Sowell - Programming in Assembly Language: Vax-11
>    * James Brink and Richard Spillman - Computer Architecture and Vax
>      Assembly Language Programming
>    * Charles Kapps - Vax Assembly Language and Architecture
> 

The Sebesta book is his best bet as it has an Appendix D.

Input/Output Macro abd Subprogram Package.

First two lines:

; MACRO PACKAGE FOR VAX TERMINAL INPUT/OUTPUT FROM MACRO
        .TITLE IOMAC


Guess it's not a part of VMS so I won't have to search
for it there.  :-)

Good book.  I have Sebesta's PDP-11 and VAX Assembler books
as well as Sowell's PDP-11 one.  I didn't know he did a VAX
version.  I would love to have a copy for my library.

Oh, and in case anyone is interested, Sebesta has the same
in his PDP-11 book and it is also called IOMAC.

bill