GIN(ID:328/gin001)for George INput 1968 Special-purpose macro assembler used to build the GEORGE 3 operating system for ICL1900 series machines. A macro could examine the assembly process and possibly modify its further course. from the 1900 languages page GIN - George INput was a special assembler language used for writing the Operating Systems and Executives (GINX). Syntactically it was similar to PLAN, but had many more features. Unlike PLAN, it was not a compiler but an assembler that was complete in itself and could not be mixed with other languages. Hardware:
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