[Simh] BLISS

Howard Bussey howard.bussey at gmail.com
Fri Jan 26 16:55:19 EST 2018


SOAP was the assembler for the IBM 650.

—Howard

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> On Jan 26, 2018, at 16:25, Larry Baker <baker at usgs.gov> wrote:
> 
> Was SOAP Knuth's assembler that optimized placement of the machine code on the drum memory to minimize access latency for the next instruction?
> 
> Larry Baker
> US Geological Survey
> 650-329-5608
> baker at usgs.gov
> 
> 
> 
>> On 26 Jan 2018, at 12:35:20 PM, simh-request at trailing-edge.com wrote:
>> 
>> The only other optimizing assembler I can think of is SOAP, way back in the 1950s.
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