Modified Binary Loader MK IV
5,8-48

R. Ward, American-Standard Research Division,
New Brunswick, New Jersey

The Mark IV Loader was developed to accomplish four
objectives:

1. Incorporate the self-starting format described in
DECUS 5/8-27, Bootstrap Loader.

2. Select the reader in use, automatically, without switch
register settings.

3. Enable a newly-prepared binary tape to be checked
prior to loading by calculating the checksum.

4. Reduce the storage requirements for the loader so that
a special program would fit on the last page of memory with
it.

Catalog: November 1969