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The '''Symbolic Assembly Program (SAP)''' is an [[Assembly language#Assembler|assembler program]] for the [[IBM 704]] computer. It was written by [[Roy Nutt]] at [[United Aircraft]] Corporation, and was distributed by the [[SHARE (computing)|SHARE]] user's group beginning in 1956 as the ''Share Assembly Program''. SAP succeeded an earlier program called NYAP1 (New York Assembly Program 1), which it closely resembled,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Orchard-Hays |first1=William |title=Adaptability of the Linear Programming Codes |url=https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/605067.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531211713/https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/605067.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 31, 2019 |website=Defense Technical Information Center |accessdate=May 31, 2019}}</ref> and became the standard assembler for 704 users.<ref name="Helwig">{{cite web |last1=Helwig |first1=F. |display-authors=etal |title=CODING for the MIT-IBM 704 COMPUTER |url=httphttps://wwwbitsavers.textfiles.com/bitsaversorg/pdf/mit/computer_center/Coding_for_the_MIT-IBM_704_Computer_Oct57.pdf|website=bitsavers.org |accessdate=Apr 8, 2018 |website=bitsavers.org}}</ref> It "set the external form of an assembly language that was to be a model for all its successors and which persists almost unchanged to the present day."<ref>{{cite web

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