Date   : Mon, 05 Jun 1989 06:30:13 GMT
From   : zinn!mem@decvax.dec.com (Mark E. Mallett)
Subject: Anyone heard of SLR Systems?

A.L.Dennis@DURHAM.AC.UK.at.pucc.PRINCETON.EDU writes:
>Does anybody out there know of SLR Systems who produce a Z80 assembler
>called Z80ASM (it's not <CPM.ASMUTL>Z80ASM24.LBR !!!) and also an
>associated linker (SLRLNK?). I ask on REDUG because somebody has
>recently requested Z8E35.ARK and i'm hoping that person (or anyone
>else!) might know.

I suspect that EVERYBODY reading this newsgroup knows of SLR systems.

I switched to the SLR assembler for a number of reasons.  One, that
it didn't force the "-$" construction on PC-relative branches (what's
an assembler for, anyway, if you have to explicitly calculate the
relative offsets???).  But the biggest factor was its speed.  I
clocked it at around 23,000 lines per minute.  At this speed, mammoth
assemblies aren't a problem.  I had gone to great pains to make my TED
editor modular, for incremental assemblies; but with SLR, I could
assemble the whole thing as a unit, and generate a .COM file, in less
time than I could assemble a single module with any other assembler.

In fact, I bought ECO-C primarily because it came bundled with a version
of the SLR assembler.

The latest address I have for SLR (1984) is:

       SLR Systems
       1622 N. Main Street
       Butler PA 16001
       (412) 282 0864

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