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MSA2 and TP7 overlays (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 16.12.2019, 19:15

> > I never saw this kind of syntax before.
>
> Pascal originates on a system (CDC 6600) with 6-bit characters. There are
> some shortcuts for characters not in the default (source) character set.

Some monitors (charsets?) or keyboards were more limited than others.

> Other workarounds are e.g. ^A..^Z for #1..#26

That's TP specific, no?

Anyways, quoting original Pascal (ISO 7185):

> @ = ^
> (. = [
> .) = ]
> (* = {
> *) = }

Just for comparison, Modula-2 has the following:

> [ = (!
> ] = !)
> { = (:
> } = :)
> | = !
> ^ = @

Complete thread:

• MSA assembler released under MIT - DosWorld, 10.11.2019, 13:44 (Announce)
  • MSA assembler released under MIT - tom, 10.11.2019, 19:00
    • MSA assembler released under MIT - DosWorld, 12.11.2019, 14:42
      • MSA assembler released under MIT - Rugxulo, 15.11.2019, 03:24
        • MSA assembler released under MIT - DosWorld, 15.11.2019, 16:38
      • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - Rugxulo, 02.12.2019, 20:47
        • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - marcov, 03.12.2019, 16:37
          • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - Rugxulo, 04.12.2019, 03:59
            • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - marcov, 04.12.2019, 10:41
              • Turbo Pascal overlays (overleden? ha!) - Rugxulo, 16.02.2020, 03:48
                • Turbo Pascal overlays - Rugxulo, 18.02.2020, 03:03
                • Turbo Pascal overlays & NASM Preprocessor - ecm, 05.03.2020, 16:42
        • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - rr, 03.12.2019, 21:34
        • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - Rugxulo, 14.12.2019, 13:28
          • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - rr, 14.12.2019, 23:42
            • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - marcov, 15.12.2019, 21:07
              • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - Rugxulo, 16.12.2019, 19:15
        • MSA2 and TP7 overlays - DosWorld, 15.12.2019, 21:42
          • MSA2 and one-pass assemblers - Rugxulo, 16.12.2019, 19:32
          • MSA2 compilation with GCC - Rugxulo, 12.02.2020, 08:18