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Early history □ Minutes of committee meetings □ Progress reports □ Other reports □ News cuttings □ In-house publications □ Committee papers □ Personal recollections □ ACL publications □ Books □ Early Atlas publications □ FR80 reports □ Atlas manuals □ ICL1906A manuals □ Other manuals

Overview □ ICL1906A reference manual □ CAMPER (Computer Aided Movie Perspectives) □ CASS (Computer-Aided Sound Synthesis) □ COCOA □ FOG manual □ FR80 user manual □ GROATS (Graphics system) □ PIGS □ PLASYD □ SMOG □ SMOG/SPROGS primer □ SOL □ SPROGS (SD4020 PDP15 Rapid Output Graphics System) □ SPROGS supplement □ TASK □ TREE-META translator writing system

Further reading □ Contents □ 1. Introduction □ 2. Definition of regions □ 3. Line drawing □ 4. Character typing and plotting □ 5. Control procedures □ 7. Extended facilities □ 10. References

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Applications Associates Literature Society Technology Software revisited

Early history □ Minutes of committee meetings □ Progress reports □ Other reports □ News cuttings □ In-house publications □ Committee papers □ Personal recollections □ ACL publications □ Books □ Early Atlas publications □ FR80 reports □ Atlas manuals □ ICL1906A manuals □ Other manuals

Overview □ ICL1906A reference manual □ CAMPER (Computer Aided Movie Perspectives) □ CASS (Computer-Aided Sound Synthesis) □ COCOA □ FOG manual □ FR80 user manual □ GROATS (Graphics system) □ PIGS □ PLASYD □ SMOG □ SMOG/SPROGS primer □ SOL □ SPROGS (SD4020 PDP15 Rapid Output Graphics System) □ SPROGS supplement □ TASK □ TREE-META translator writing system

Chapter 10: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND REFERENCES

We should like to thank Stromberg-Carlson for permission to use diagrams appearing in the Programmer's Reference Manual for the SC 4020. (Due to a change in the company's name to Stromberg-Datagraphix, the machine is now referred to as the SD 4020.)

The main facilities available in the GROATS system were developed after reading the literature describing the following systems:

The Atlas Laboratory Graph package in the HARTRAN system.
The GHOST system of the Culham Laboratory.
The N.P.L. Graphic system.
The P.I.B. system of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (described in the Proceedings of the 6th UAIDE conference).
Systems available at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
Atlas Computer Laboratory, Algol GROATS manual (for Atlas) August 1971.

The authors have borrowed ideas from each of these systems. The main influence has been the P.I.B. system. The list of references following are particularly applicable to graphic output systems.

Proceedings of the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th UAIDE (Users of Automatic Information Display Equipment) Conferences (1965-8).
'User's guide to the N.P.L. Graphical Output System' by B.R. Heap and C.W. Nott. 1968. NPL Report No. MA63.
'User's guide to the Culham Computer Graphical Output System' by F.M. Larkin. 1967. H.M.S.O.
Atlas Computer Laboratory, SC 4020 Plotter Manual.

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