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COMPASS - Definition
Related Words: Accept, Acquire, Ambience, Annex, Beset, Blockade, Bound, Boundaries, Boundary, Bounds

COMPASS is an acronym for COMPrehensive ASSembler. COMPASS is a macro assembly language on Control Data Corporation's 3000 series , 6400 series, 7600 and CYBER 7 series mainframe computers.

There are two flavors of COMPASS :

  • COMPASS CP is the assembly language for the CP (Central Processor), the processor running user programs. See CDC 6600 CP architecture.
  • COMPASS PP is the assembly language for the PP (Peripheral Processor), only running operating system code. See CDC 6600 PP architecture.

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