Hot for MACRO

DATE: 2013-12-24

o/~ I've got it bad, so bad, I'm hot for MACRO! o/~

VULCAN has played Mephistopheles to my Faust and convinced me to dive into
assembly language. I ordered a copy of Ralph Gorin's classic Introduction to
DECSYSTEM-20 Assembly Language Programming after finding a copy on AbeBooks.com
in the UK for 25 USD. Then I logged-in to twenex.org and @TODAY informs me that
today, Christmas Eve, is Ralph Gorin's birthday. Can you say, "Destiny"?

I note that the Wikipedia page for MACRO-10[1] has a very straight-forward
Hello World program in MACRO along with instructions for compiling, linking,
and running it on TOPS-10.

For reference, here is the procedure for doing the same on TOPS-20, where the 
program works fine:

     @compile hello.mac /list
     MACRO:	HELLO
     
     EXIT
     @load
     LINK:	Loading
     @save
      HELLO.EXE.3 Saved
     @hello
     HELLO, WORLD! FROM MACRO-10

Today, TWENEX, tomorrow, the world!

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACRO-10