Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program


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Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program

(language)
(SOAP) The IBM 650's assembly language. "Optimal" refers to rearranging instructions on slowly rotating drum memory.

Versions: SOAP I, SOAP II, CASE SOAP III.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].
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