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Language peer sets for MIDAS:
United States
United States/1960
Designed 1960
1960s languages
Second generation
Early Cold War
Genus Macroassemblers
String and List Processing
Macroassemblers
Assemblers
Fixed operation
Macroassemblers/1960
Assemblers/1960
Fixed operation/1960
Macroassemblers/United States
Assemblers/United States
Fixed operation/United States
String and List Processing
String and List Processing/1960
String and List Processing/us

MIDAS(ID:3324/mid003)

Assembler with macro and string processing capabilities 

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Country: United States
Designed 1960
Published: 1960
Genus: Macroassemblers
Sammet category: String and List Processing


MIT Assembler for TX0 and then  PDP-1 with extensive string-processing and macro-instruction capabilities.

"The MIDAS assembler was design and implementated by Robert Saunders (the assembler guru of the TX-0 gang), and was partly designed using ideas from Steve Russell. The MIT software for the DEC PDP-1 was originally done on the TX-0, using a cross-assembler. This was one of the first uses of this technique. To create the cross-assembler, MIDAS was loaded with a PDP-1 instruction set symbol table, and an elementary routine to re-format the resulting binary tape to match the PDP-1 loader requirements. "


References:
  • Samuel, A.L. (1965) Samuel, A.L. "Time Sharing on a Multiconsole Computer" MIT-LCS-TR-017 1965
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