A Real Time Operating System for Smart Data Terminals. EUR 4967.
J. Eder, W. Hammans · Archive of European Integration (AEI) (University of Pittsburgh) · 1974
The need for an effective communication link between various digital data sources scattered around a big laboratory environment and a commonly shared data logging system (SPC-16 minicomputer with disc and magtape) led to the development of SMART datastations (1).SMART datastations are active, they can take over partially control of the computer.The terminals' user has real time access and may influence the data flow in the computer.A software package is described in this report which allows to control several simultaneously working terminals in a disc based operating system ( D BOS-16).A control routine recognizes a set of control commands from the terminals and stores incoming data due to the respective station address on disc.Some off-line routines are provided for file assignment, code conversion and editing of IBM compatible magnetic tapes.