SOAP was the assembler for the IBM 650.

—Howard

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> On Jan 26, 2018, at 16:25, Larry Baker <ba...@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
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> 
> 
>> On 26 Jan 2018, at 12:35:20 PM, simh-requ...@trailing-edge.com wrote:
>> 
>> The only other optimizing assembler I can think of is SOAP, way back in the 
>> 1950s.
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