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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: origin of null-terminated strings
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2022 07:12:13 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2212170711050.1473@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <78A69F72-788E-4A31-B750-A39C97F77C75@csp-partnership.co.uk>

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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...

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-16 20:13 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 [this message]
2022-12-16 21:02       ` Warner Losh
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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