At a late stage, the marketing team wanted to ship the system with 2K of memory as the minimal configuration. When McGowan stated this would mean an assembler could not run on the system, the minimum was expanded to 4K. The marketing team also wanted to use the forward slash character for comments in the assembler code, as was the case in the PDP–8 assembler. McGowan stated that he would then have to use semicolon to indicate division, and the idea was dropped.
at a late stage the marketing team wanted to ship the system with 2k of memory as the minimal configuration when mcgowan stated this would mean an assembler could not run on the system the minimum was expanded to 4k the marketing team also wanted to use the forward slash character for comments in the assembler code as was the case in the pdp–8 assembler mcgowan stated that he would then have to use semicolon to indicate division and the idea was dropped