Editing IBM PALM processor (section)

=== First Public IBM Use of the Term "PALM" ===

The earliest publicly accessible IBM document using the term "PALM" is the '''GENASM PALM''' manual by H. J. Myers (1977, IBM Internal Use Only). GENASM was IBM's macro-assembler generator for the PALM target machine; "PALM" in the title refers to file index 6 on the GENASM distribution tape (the PALM target-machine definition file).<ref>Myers, H. J., ''GENASM PALM'' (IBM Internal Use Only, 1977). Mirror at voidstar.blog GitHub `voidstar78/IBM_5100_DOCS/PDFs_5100/AssemblerGenerator.pdf`.</ref>

'''No public-facing IBM manual from the 5100 / 5110 / 5120 product line uses the term "PALM"''' — not the 5100 Maintenance Information Manual (SY31-0405), not the 5110 MIM (SY31-0550), not the 5120 Computing System Logic Manual (SY34-0193), and not the user-language reference manuals. IBM's customer-facing terminology is always "the controller" (the card in slot G2 on the 5100 / J2 on the 5110). The word "PALM" was internal-only until the late-1980s / 1990s, when it leaked into the IBM Archives and the Roberson IEEE-Proceedings paper retrospectively associated it with the controller architecture.