From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, HTML_MESSAGE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 4320 invoked from network); 16 Dec 2022 21:04:21 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 16 Dec 2022 21:04:21 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 775C6423D7; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:03:44 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-ed1-f50.google.com (mail-ed1-f50.google.com [209.85.208.50]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACEDE4239E for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:03:38 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ed1-f50.google.com with SMTP id c66so5331084edf.5 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:03:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=bsdimp-com.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=Z2npPQfLJgn6jwehxg2B8Zsx5pNHhBIABSgJ/5mQJTw=; b=FeAyrAbgwHYQ3rrvrj3L2yIgIIjaYRgWmMYblQC5q2kqMkTFJneKpc77M9HMBS8v5w 66un+5HK858/22VMc2344ka6AsF+22cHPuWICX6x8r9JlyJ5hA4TRqiRKhwZ8FFjlJr8 WCNCooaESg0f86LJWiZCWxWQtmR0nOHaSJzbB73Kxs0BfBKfFCzjXBNyKjfrqssWf+CD OvbWrhGPjerP9ridDqrHOgZKgEtTWG+QDHxYMA2cBSl71/vT9SLi/QGnumMZ4kK+Ungw QKtmSp3uA9tMBLoOG6KhCXwydT3jdswtFVROFBUBAJ6t9+MWCNGdjaRvMUHX0/W5JMhB WaGQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=Z2npPQfLJgn6jwehxg2B8Zsx5pNHhBIABSgJ/5mQJTw=; b=GFRudJrGAMF2F2x0k4/+tBH/DVIE6G/k/77IFv6WiTDwIHVJ7N7ijIUmig/M93tBf7 ttLJ4qGsKp3G0C54grtvK9+EX1LzS+aMS8RCJhV6xLgjj8dmygnTFSGtTcQ0viL2+R7I KvnzM4ItRjDDZ0x9ANQX77uW3a5LV+Lsy5bad8ir3H6SD2ITbdY8curTeLGSizUDwApz gWVUPXoq4R8Kk3bVNyR1cs6J31dihIgnW4maPoLxCLjo5AUPJKdkyE1oJ4V9CXtqQfVu Q1AusEbH+IAtow3FxkW0y/xZgqhqecKj3YDhE05ixF+W6RaQ3gA/P3o69irzzzEKrSqG Q2iA== X-Gm-Message-State: ANoB5pktzx413Wj1C0hI3/mc2/yBJGm/kk3TCkzGtNIQxObjhMwThZOF jc3ZTsr79MhtV3VDOemnB3RtdL4fv5HXneRcRZg2ivFkbPkxtg== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AA0mqf6N+NDra0lqLsAOqAfwtqBRU8GCg8Vfy48U0g4TmB/Ms5H34CrnX13yBIKt6dqmAc6OKVY/LeTwnu9mAGUF7gk= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:1755:b0:470:2d48:bda3 with SMTP id v21-20020a056402175500b004702d48bda3mr1886454edx.136.1671224557097; Fri, 16 Dec 2022 13:02:37 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <78A69F72-788E-4A31-B750-A39C97F77C75@csp-partnership.co.uk> In-Reply-To: From: Warner Losh Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 14:02:26 -0700 Message-ID: To: Dave Horsfall Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="00000000000010ec7c05eff84a74" Message-ID-Hash: NI3HM6YSOWOKGF24CJEHSOBW6367DKPA X-Message-ID-Hash: NI3HM6YSOWOKGF24CJEHSOBW6367DKPA X-MailFrom: wlosh@bsdimp.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: origin of null-terminated strings List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --00000000000010ec7c05eff84a74 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 1:12 PM Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2022, Dr Iain Maoileoin wrote: > > > I remember running into a .asciz directive n the 70s =E2=80=9Csomewhere= =E2=80=9D. It was > > an assembler directive in one of the RT11 systems??? or perhaps the uni= x > > bootstrap and/or =E2=80=9C.s=E2=80=9D files - when I get some time I wi= ll 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 > --00000000000010ec7c05eff84a74 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable


On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, 1:12 PM Dave Horsfall &= lt;dave@horsfall.org> wrote:
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022, Dr Iain Maoileoi= n wrote:

> I remember running into a .asciz directive n the 70s =E2=80=9Csomewher= e=E2=80=9D. It was
> an assembler directive in one of the RT11 systems??? or perhaps the un= ix
> bootstrap and/or =E2=80=9C.s=E2=80=9D files - when I get some time I w= ill go read some
> old code/manuals.

MACRO-11 on RSX-11D seems to ring a bell...

I first encountered it on RSTS/E 6C i= n the MACRO-11 it had... But the v6 macro assembler from DEC via Harvard th= at eventually wound up in 2BSD is older and dates to 1977 or so.

Warner
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