The Howdy Glossary

PAL can refer to two programming languages: The first, Product Assembly Language, was an IBM-internal language used for developing and maintaining the IBM System/34 and System/36 minicomputers. It was designed to be more user-friendly than Assembler Language by providing macro instructions that were easier to use but still efficient. The second PAL is the Parallel Architecture Language, which is a parallel algorithm design tool used in computer architecture research. Developed at the University of Utah's School of Computing, PAL has contributed to teaching structural simulation and architectural innovation techniques.