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Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961) by al2o3cr on Monday May 30, 2022 @12:02AM (#31555354)
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.

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Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961) by RachelF on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @02:19AM (#31566622)
Impressive page layout for a paper from 1961!
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Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961) by buescher on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @07:23AM (#31568269)
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.
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Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961) by pmcjones on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @10:25PM (#31676962)
It was probably typeset by typing it on an IBM Executive typewriters which had proportional spacing and a carbon ribbon.
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Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961) by cyco130 on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @03:56AM (#31567085)
An earlier assembler for the same system was called SCAT[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_700/7000_series#FORTRAN_as...

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Re:Fortran Assembly Program (FAP) for the IBM 709/7090 (1961) by mcmisieck on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @10:13AM (#31569720)
If only it could be used on Fast Access Remote Terminals...
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