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The page doesn't say that these were predefined assembler macros provided by IBM. I'm tending toward the interpretation that the Lisp guys themselves (likely Ru
by kazinator 2y ago
The page doesn't say that these were predefined assembler macros provided by IBM. I'm tending toward the interpretation that the Lisp guys themselves (likely Russel) wrote these macros as part of the assembly language implementation of the interpreter. Which means they specified them to the assembler, rather than the other way around.