PL/M
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The PL/M programming language (an acronym of Programming Language for Microcomputers) is a medium-level language developed by MAA (later Digital Research) in 1972 on behalf of Intel for its microprocessors. PL/M is no longer supported by Intel, but aftermarket tools like PL/M-to-C translators exist (for examples, see External links, below).
The language incorporated ideas from PL/I, ALGOL and XPL, and had an integrated macro processor. PL/M had no standard input or output routines like other contemporary languages like Pascal, C or BASIC. It included features targeted at the low-level hardware specific to the target microprocessors, and as such, it could support direct access to any location in memory, I/O ports and the processor interrupt flags in a very efficient manner. PL/M was the original implementation language for the CP/M operating system. Also the firmware of the Service Processor component of CISC AS/400 was written in PL/M. PL/M compilers have been made for the following processors/controllers: Intel 4004, 8008, 8080, 8051, 80196, 8086, 286, and 386. While some PL/M compilers were "native", meaning that they ran on systems using that same microprocessor, e.g. for CP/M system and the Intel ISIS operating system, there were also "cross compilers" which ran on other operating environments such as Microsoft's DOS, and Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX/VMS.
References
- Intel Corporation (1976). PL/M-80 Programming Manual. Doc # 98-268B.
- McCracken, Daniel D. (1978). A Guide to PL/M Programming for Microcomputer Applications. Pearson Addison-Wesley.
External links
- [PL/M 386 Programmer’s Guide] (PDF) – RadiSys Corporation, December 1999. Includes entire syntax of PL/M in BNF notation.
- [Development Assistant for PL/M (DA-PL/M)] – Commercial PL/M IDE from RistanCASE GmbH
- [PLM2C - PL/M to C Translator] – Commercial product from Alternative Solutions
- [XTRAN Demonstration: Translating PL/M to C] – Commercial product from Pennington Systems, Inc.
- [PLM To "C" Software Translator Sample] – From Micro-Processor Services, Inc., a supplier of PL/M to C/Java translators
- This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is [Foldoc licenselicensed] under the GFDL.
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