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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