FOCAL for Disk and DECtape with Program Chaining
| FOCAL8-145
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Lloyd B. Robinson, Lick Observatory, University of
California, Santa Cruz, California
This version of FOCAL is useful for control of special devices.
Special FOCAL commands can call FOCAL language sub-
routines from DECtape, store integers and variables on disk,
and control block by block transfers between disk and DECtape.
Up to 16 more special purpose commands can be added to the
system in a convenient manner.
| Minimum Hardware: | 8K PDP-8, KE 8/I Arithmetic, One
DECtape and/or DF32 Disk
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| Other Programs Needed: | Overlays 8K FOCAL-69
Storage Reguirement: 0-3177, 4600-7577, 10000-10777,
16600-17777
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| Restrictions: | DECtape and disk storage ignores
the Monitor
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| Source Language: | PAL
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| Catalog:
| July 1973
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