PAL-11R

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PAL-11R is an assembly language, and an assembler, for the PDP-11's disk operating system, DOS-11. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] It was the precursor to MACRO-11.[ citation needed ]

The original assembler for Unix, as , was based on PAL-11R. [9]

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