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IBM 360 assembly language.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

ASM360, Assembler 360, 360 assembly, or Basic Assembly Language (BAL) are the commonly 
used terms for a low-level programming language used on IBM System/360 
and successor mainframes. 
Originally "Basic Assembly Language" applied only to an extremely restricted 
dialect designed to run under control of IBM Basic Programming Support 
(BPS/360) on systems with only 8KB of main memory, and only a card reader, 
a card punch, and a printer for input/output — thus the word "Basic". 
However, the full name and the initialism "BAL" almost immediately attached 
themselves in popular use to all assembly-language dialects on the System/360 and 
its descendants. The 360 assembly was introduced with the System/360 in 1964.

==Wikipedia article==
[[wp:IBM_Basic_assembly_language_and_successors|IBM Basic assembly language and successors]]

==See also==

WikiBooks Article: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/360_Assembly/360_Instructions

IBM manuals:
* IBM System/360 Principles of Operation (c. 1963) : http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-6821-0_360PrincOps.pdf
* A Programmer's Introduction to IBM System/360 Assembler Language: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/asm/SC20-1646-6_int360asm_Aug70.pdf