IBM 650 - Software

Software

Software included:

  • BLIS (Bell Laboratories Interpretive System), which used a numeric-only three-address approach
  • IPL the first list processing language. The best known version was IPL-V.
  • SPACE (Simplified Programming Anyone Can Enjoy) which was a business-oriented two-step compiler (through SOAP)
  • Perlis, A.J.; et al. (4/18/58) (PDF). Internal Translator; IT, A Compiler for the 650. 650 Library Program 2.1.001. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/650/CarnegieInternalTranslator.pdf.
  • Symbolic Optimal Assembly Program, IBM (1957) (PDF). SOAP II for the IBM 650. C24-4000-0. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/650/24-4000-0_SOAPII.pdf.
  • IBM (1959) (PDF). FOR TRANSIT Automatic Coding System for the IBM 650. 28-4028. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/650/28-4028_FOR_TRANSIT.pdf. A version of Fortran which compiled to IT which in turn was compiled to SOAP.
  • IBM (1960) (PDF). FORTRAN Automatic Coding System for the IBM 650. 29-4047. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/650/29-4047_FORTRAN.pdf.
  • GATE, a simple compiler with one character variable names
  • Revised Unified New Compiler IT Basic Language Extended (RUNCIBLE)
  • Technical Assembly System (TASS), a macro assembler.

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