[2] 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.
"[3] DARSIMCO, short for Dartmouth Simplified Code, was a simple programming language written by John Kemeny (who later co-developed BASIC) in 1956 that expanded simple mathematical operations into a program that would then be assembled by SAP.
It is capable of running on a 704 with a minimum of 4 K 36-bit words of core storage.
The output is binary data in the twelve card rows 12, 11, and 0–9.
The control word contains bits indicating, for example, whether the data on the card is absolute or relocatable, whether or not a checksum is present, the absolute or nominal location of data on this card, and a count of the number of words of data contained on this card.