From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: origin of null-terminated strings
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:02:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfpXG2Wdzhwd5uqhetHM4xX6kNk41V3ULBkoEEuzYf7esw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2212170711050.1473@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 1:12 PM Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote:
>
> > I remember running into a .asciz directive n the 70s “somewhere”. It was
> > an assembler directive in one of the RT11 systems??? or perhaps the unix
> > bootstrap and/or “.s” files - when I get some time I will go read some
> > old code/manuals.
>
> MACRO-11 on RSX-11D seems to ring a bell...
>
I first encountered it on RSTS/E 6C in the MACRO-11 it had... But the v6
macro assembler from DEC via Harvard that eventually wound up in 2BSD is
older and dates to 1977 or so.
Warner
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-16 21:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-16 3:02 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-16 3:14 ` [TUHS] " Ken Thompson
2022-12-16 9:13 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2022-12-16 13:42 ` Dan Halbert
2022-12-16 16:10 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-16 16:22 ` Tom Lyon
2022-12-16 16:29 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-12-16 20:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-12-16 21:02 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2022-12-16 21:13 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-16 21:49 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 0:26 ` Phil Budne
2022-12-16 21:18 ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-16 21:20 ` Dan Halbert
2022-12-16 3:17 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-12-16 17:24 ` John P. Linderman
[not found] ` <6009124d-750d-365e-a424-ec7bb25922b9@gmail.com>
2022-12-16 22:30 ` [TUHS] Terms for string, and similar character constructs (was: origin of null-terminated strings) Alejandro Colomar
2022-12-16 22:51 ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-12-16 22:26 [TUHS] Re: origin of null-terminated strings Douglas McIlroy
2022-12-17 2:03 ` James Frew
2022-12-17 3:42 ` steve jenkin
2022-12-17 17:11 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 18:15 ` Tom Lyon
2022-12-17 18:43 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 18:46 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-17 19:26 ` Tom Perrine
2022-12-19 4:26 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-16 23:11 Noel Chiappa
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