COMAP: A Conversational Macro Package for the IBM 2250,

Abstract

COMAP is a programming tool directed toward the assembly language programmer. COMAP, a set of assembly language macro's, enables the programmer to utilize the 2250 graphics display as a conversational tool with a minimum of knowledge of the display device itself. Through the use of the macro's provided by COMAP the programmer or producer of statistical conversational units can handle automatic control and formatting of the output display, dynamic memory allocation and storage of input messages from the keyboard, maintenance of internal tables and control blocks, buffer management in the graphics display controller, basic attention handling.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0722385

Entities

People

  • Lu Penn

Organizations

  • University of Georgia

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Assembly Languages
  • Automatic
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Formal Languages
  • Graphics
  • Keyboards
  • Language
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Programming Languages

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science.