Quest: An On-Line Event-Processing Routine
Margaret H. Alston, James E. Braley, Peter B. White · Review of Scientific Instruments · 1963
An on-line computing system called QUEST can be used by a physicist to analyze unusual bubble-chamber events. The production version of a program called PACKAGE has been modified so that the physicist can control the progress of a specific event through the subroutines of PACKAGE. Feedback from the computer to the operator permits him to decide what hypothesis he should try next, depending upon the results already obtained. Because the physicist requires time to think what to do next, the QUEST system has been designed so that it can interrupt and then restore other programs.