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ND-10311A — Assembler for ND-500, version A

Status: IN-PROGRESS — install command sourced from the manual, floppy contents confirmed, not run live · Install source: [manual] + [OBS]

Field Value
Part number 10311A
Base product ND-10311
Version A
Release date file dated 1981-10-22
CPU target ND-500
OS requirement unknown

Description

Single-file floppy: the assembler itself, shipped as a raw :BPUN, no runtime banks, no include/header files, no install script.

Distribution media

Floppy volume Contents
ND-10311A ASSEMBLER-500:BPUN (20 pages), user FLOPPY-USER

Confirmed by downloading the image (MD5 ec1a89cbd51ada86af596609d9bf40e3) and reading with ndtool -t.

Installation procedure

No PD sheet or :MODE script exists on this floppy, but the exact install command is already documented elsewhere in this repo — quoted from ND-30.003.7 EN SINTRAN III System Supervisor as the manual's own worked example for @DUMP-REENTRANT with omitted (default) addresses:

@DUMP-REENTRANT ASSEMBLER,,(BPUN-FILES)ASSEMBLER-500:BPUN

See ../../../OS/SINTRAN-BOOT-AND-MODE-FILES-GUIDE.md §12 — "Empty addresses (,,) use the file's own defaults — this is what the manual shows for ASSEMBLER-500." This is the one FORTRAN/PLANC/Assembler-family product in this catalog whose reentrant-dump command is manual-sourced, not inferred by pattern.

Before this command works, copy the floppy's file to (BPUN-FILES): 

@ENTER-DIRECTORY ND-10311A,FLOPPY-DISC-1,0,
@COPY-FILE "ASSEMBLER-500:BPUN",(BPUN-FILES)ASSEMBLER-500:BPUN

Configuration / post-install

None known beyond the reentrant dump.

Documentation

Provenance & open items

  • Source: floppy directory listing via ndtool; install command from the System Supervisor manual (already transcribed elsewhere in this repo, not re-verified here).
  • TODO: confirm the copy-to-(BPUN-FILES) step's exact syntax and destination user against a real PD sheet if one turns up — inferred from the generic pattern in ../../INSTALL-METHODOLOGY.md, not stated for this product specifically.
  • TODO: this install has not been run live in the emulator.

Parent: ../README.md (ND-10311 product overview)