PL-11: A programming language for the DEC PDP-11 computer

This manual gives the specification for a new programming language PL-11 which is a high-level assembler for the DEC PDP-11 computer. The language has been modelled after PL-360. It is block structured, in a similar way to ALGOL-60, and gives access to all the PDP-11 hardware facilities, with the possibility of specifying for which model and hardware options the compiler will generate code. It also has facilities for CAMAC programming. PL-11 serves as the standard programming language on PDP-11s in CERN's Omega Project, a multiparticle spectrometer whose data acquisition system consists of a number of PDP-11s on-line to a CII 10070.