Symbolic Assembly Program

The Symbolic Assembly Program (SAP) is an assembler program for the IBM 704 computer. It was written by Roy Nutt at United Aircraft Corporation, and was distributed by the SHARE user's group beginning in 1956 as the Share Assembly Program. SAP became the standard assembler for 704 users.[1]

Description

SAP was a two-pass assembler. It was capable of running on a 704 with a minimum of 4 K 36-bit words of core storage. This configuration allowed up to 1097 entries in the symbol table. Additional core memory beyond 4 KW would be used to allow for additional symbol table entries.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Helwig, F. et.al. "CODING for the MIT-IBM 704 COMPUTER" (PDF). bitsavers.org. Retrieved Apr 8, 2018.
  2. ↑ Nutt, Roy. "United Aircraft Corporation SHARE Assembler". Retrieved Apr 9, 2018.
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