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Sep 16, 2020 08:02:38   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
Meadwilliam wrote:
SOAP spaced the instructions for you.


My recollection of SOAP was that it provided a mechanism to space the instructions but didn’t provide the spacing. The programmer had to fill in the blank.

Of course my SOAP experience was probably more than 60 years ago and my meat memory is throwing exceptions.

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Sep 18, 2020 19:34:11   #
domcomm Loc: Denver, CO
 
I'm interested in what you come up with for 9/23 – that will be my 75th birthday.

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Sep 18, 2020 21:57:09   #
Meadwilliam
 
It was a symbolic assembler that optimized spacing for you. Thus, the name SOAP.

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Sep 18, 2020 21:59:42   #
Meadwilliam
 
I used SOAP 70 years ago. First we learned machine language. Our IBM 650 with 2000 words of magnetic drum memory couldn’t run FORTRAN.

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