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SODA(ID:34/sod001)

Symbolic Optimum DEUCE Assembly

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Country: Australia
Designed 1957
Published: 1958
Genus: Symbolic assemblers
Sammet category: Multi-purpose

Symbolic Optimum DEUCE Assembly Program. Symbolic assembler for a one-level storage virtual machine for the English ELectric DEUCE.

Written by Gordon Bell who later played an important role in DEC, while on a Fulbright fellowship to Australia.

Hardware:

DEUCE English Electric

Related languages

SAP	→	SODA	Influence
SOAP	→	SODA	Influence
SODA	→	GEORGE	Subsumed

References:

Brigham, R. C. & Bell, C. G. (1958) Brigham, R. C. & Bell, C. G. "SODA Manual of Operation", School of Elec Eng, U New S Wales, Sydney, NSW (1958).

Brigham, RC and Bell, CG (1959) Brigham, RC and Bell, CG "A translation routine for the DEUCE computer" pp76-84 Abstract Online copy Extract: Introduction to the Problem Extract: Interpretive and Translation Routines Extract: Introduction to the New Pseudo Language—SODA Extract: The SODA Machine and the SODA Language Extract: Results
in (1959) The Computer Journal 2(2) July 1959

D.G. Burnett-Hall, D.G. and Samet, P.A. (1959) D.G. Burnett-Hall, D.G. and Samet, P.A. "A PROGRAMMING HANDBOOK FOR THE COMPUTER DEUCE" RAE Technical Note No. M.S.38 April 1959
in (1959) The Computer Journal 2(2) July 1959

Denison (1960) Denison, S. J. M. "Further DEUCE interpretative programs and some translating programs pp127-45 Extract: Introduction Extract: SODA
in Goodman (ed) (1960) Goodman, Richard (ed) "Annual Review in Automatic Programming "(1) 1960 Pergamon Press, Oxford

Blum, E. (1961) Blum, E. K. review of Goodman 1960 Abstract
in (1961) ACM Computing Reviews 2(03) May-June 1961

Campbell-Kelly, Martin (1982) Campbell-Kelly, Martin "The Development of Computer Programming in Britain (1945 to 1955)" Extract: Programming on the DEUCE Extract: Conclusions Abstract
in (1982) Annals of the History of Computing 4(2) April 1982 IEEE
Resources

Page at Antique Computer home page run by Ed THelen

Note...

SODA (symbolic, optimum, deuce assembly program) converted the two
stores into a single level store.

Because some of the English machines had small main memories and backing
drum stores, they created the one level store. Just like we did in
1957-1958.

Unfortunately, it was done first at Manchester and then appeared in
Atlas.

In 1958, when I met Wilkinson at NP (that Deuce came from) to give a
talk,
he said who needs a symbolic, optimum assembly program --
(in essence) real men program in binary.

SODA was used as the back end for a Fortran compiler that got written
for DEUCE.

The runtime and memory manager was used by George, a reverse polish
notation system.
George was used as a model for the EE KDF9 Architecture.

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