[HECnet] MACRO-11 cross assembler for VMS

Yes, you are correct that the hardware could do it but to actually run PDP-11 programs you needed a layered software product for VMS called the RSXAME ("Application Migration Executive"). The AME came with MACRO11, task builder, and a bunch of other stuff. I don't have it, though, and I haven't seen a copy since the early 1980s. I'm not even sure it would work on a MicroVAX, either. Only the VAX-7xx models and (I think) the 8600 actually had compatibility mode; it got dropped from the architecture pretty fast after that. I seem to remember that DEC added a software emulation feature for later VAXes that didn't have compatibility mode, but I don't remember the details. In any case I don't really need all that - I just want to assemble some stand alone PDP-11 programs that I can then download to a real -11. Bob