{"title":"Minicomputers and programmable calculators","authors":"John F. Barkley","doi":"10.1145/1164857.1164859","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The most traditional form of the minicomputer system is the single-user system. It is primarily since the invention of the word \"minicomputer\" that minicomputers have been used in applications which require some form of multi-tasking, such as, message switching, industrial process monitoring, and laboratory instrument control. Indeed, some forms of these applications are implemented with single-user systems using FORTRAN or BASIC.","PeriodicalId":377377,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigmini Newsletter","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACM Sigmini Newsletter","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1164857.1164859","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The most traditional form of the minicomputer system is the single-user system. It is primarily since the invention of the word "minicomputer" that minicomputers have been used in applications which require some form of multi-tasking, such as, message switching, industrial process monitoring, and laboratory instrument control. Indeed, some forms of these applications are implemented with single-user systems using FORTRAN or BASIC.