J. Welford
Abstract
This paper describes strategies used for the rapid construction of a microprogram assembler and simulator written in APL. Although the motivation for the work was learning and teaching, and although both designs are simple and superficially ad-hoc, the approach is easily applicable in a routine way to other systems and requires little more effort than that involved in writing the definition files for general purpose simulators and assemblers, the work of the latter being mainly done by the APL interpreter.
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- Using APL to understand bit-slice microprocessors
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