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Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961)

• abrax3141 4y ago
• al2o3cr 4y ago
  Adding the date would be relevant - the linked document is from 1961! Concepts like the ones described in the "Extended Machine Operations" and "Pseudo-operations" sections (start around page 16) are a lot more impressive in that light; designing a system for expressiveness and programmer convenience over pure utility was still a very new idea.
• deleted 4y ago
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• mcmisieck 4y ago
  • cyco130 4y ago
    An earlier assembler for the same system was called SCAT[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_700/7000_series#FORTRAN_assembly_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_700/7000_series#FORTRAN_as...
    • mcmisieck 4y ago
      If only it could be used on Fast Access Remote Terminals...
• RachelF 4y ago
  Impressive page layout for a paper from 1961!
  • buescher 4y ago
    It's a printed manual. They did have typesetting back then. I like the wide margins with subheadings in them. I bet a lot of copies got written in.
    • pmcjones 4y ago
      It was probably typeset by typing it on an IBM Executive typewriters which had proportional spacing and a carbon ribbon.