Executive programs for the LACONIQ time-shared retrieval monitor

LACONIQ was designed to give several users who are not necessarily familiar with programming the apparently exclusive on-line use of a small computer for processing large information files. Processing of the data may include manipulations such as retrieval, updating, or the deletion or creation of records, documents, files, etc. Thus, LACONIQ is general-purpose in the sense that many types of information files may be processed, but is special-purpose in the sense that scientific computations on-line are not necessarily intended to be practical.