Quote: EDSAC assembly routines provided symbolic subroutine calls and symbolic labels; neither was used much

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Wilkes devised two techniques, sub-routine assembly and floating … The purpose of sub-routine assembly was to permit … The idea of a floating address corresponds to … [p. 28] The assembly sub-routines fell into disuse [due to their size and inconvenience] and they are not mentioned at all in the second … [p. 28] The floating- address sub-routine appears to have …   Google-1   Google-2

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