The mobile programming system: STAGE2

  • Authors:
  • W. M. Waite

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Colorado, Boulder

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1970

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Abstract

STAGE2 is the second level of a bootstrap sequence which is easily implemented on any computer. It is a flexible, powerful macro processor designed specifically as a tool for constructing machine-independent software. In this paper the features provided by STAGE2 are summarized, and the implementation techniques which have made it possible to have STAGE2 running on a new machine with less than one man-week of effort are discussed. The approach has been successful on over 15 machines of widely varying characteristics.