[Simh] Questions about PDP-7

[Paul Koning]

> On Feb 25, 2016, at 4:50 PM, Bob Supnik <bob at supnik.org> wrote:
> 
> I think the answer is two characters per 18b word, right aligned in a 9b "byte".
> 
> This is based on the assembly code at the end of the first PDF:
> 
> a.out:
>    <a.>; <ou>; <t 040; 040040
> 
> Clearly it's just two characters per word (; denotes end of statement to this assembler)

Lower case text, and semicolon as a statement separator, are characteristic of Unix assemblers.  These listings suggest that it goes all the way back.

	paul