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storage as standard. Further external hard and PASCAL. the languages, together GLIM package developed by the Royal disc storage is easily added. with extensions and library support have Statistical Society of London. Communications been optimised to ease greatly the porting SCIENTIFIC of programs and modules to and from The electonic engineer is well supported For local communications the ECONET mainframes. A 32000 assembler is by the Acorn Scientific range. Programs PRODUCTS Local Area Network provides included and an extension to C allows the available include SPICE, a general communications to other workstations purpose circuit simulation program and and BBC type micros and an RS423 calling of machine code inserts. The PANOS full screen editor is a QUICKCHIP, a comprehensive CAD The Acorn Scientific range of products interface provides communications to a comprehensive package ideally suited to package for semi-custom gate arrays. has been designed to provide engineers wide variety of devices including modems and scientists with a real alternative to the program development in these languages. Quickchip is supported by a high speed and mainframes. Communication with direct write electron beam fabrication mainframe and supermini computers that mainframes is supported by terminal have been their only means of access to BASIC continues to be a popular facility. General purpose engineering, in emulation and file transfer software language for a variety of tasks. The particular control engineering, is catered high levels of computation. Acorn including host code for various Scientific products can break down the version provided is Acorn's famous BBC for by the Cambridge Linear Analysis anc mainframes. More specialised BASIC with version 4 enhancements and Design Programs (CLAD-P) for the mainframe bottleneck by providing power communication is provided by the equivalent to a modern supermini a full screen editor. To retain maximum design and analysis of feedback control optional IEEE 488 interface which is fully compatibility with the BBC micro systems. computer in one neat desktop package, supported by software, allowing offering mainframe power at micro prices. implementation.BAS32 is a stand-alone For graphics applications, the NAG integration with a network of compatible system, not requiring PANOS. Two The 32 bit chip set used in the Acorn laboratory instruments. For Wide Area FORTRAN includes graphics routines in Cambridge Workstation and Cambridge versions of BBC BASIC are provided: addition GINO, GINO-Graf, GINO-Sur Networking, on national and one, using software floating point provides Co-processor is closely modelled on international scales, the Econet X25 and GKS (UK) are available. Thanks to supermini architecture and provides full fullest compatibility with the BBC micro, the interlanguage call capability GINO Gateway can provide full access to public the second version, using hardware 32 bit processing with hardware floating or private networks operating on the X25 modules can be used by compatible point support. floating point, will provide computational programs in other languages. For the international standard, for example the performance up to 25 times that of the However, the needs of demanding Joint Academic Network (JANET). conversion of numeric data to graphics BBC micro. another FORTRAN subroutine library, computer users extend beyond the Software capabilities of the CPU. These needs Thanks to the standardisation of the SIMPLEPLOT, is available. The most important part of any computer cover many areas: storage, local and long- compilers supplied, a wide range of is the software available and the Acorn For high resolution graphics applications, distance communications and—most popular applications software has been Cambrdge series is no exception. The Acorn Cambridge series processors can be importantly—software including ported to run under PANOS. Full details starting point is PANOS, the operating interfaced to one of the Pluto family of languages, utilities and applications. The are available in the Acorn Scientific graphics boards. The sytem allows control system. This is a single user system Applications Catalogue. Acorn Scientific range is uniquely specially designed for the development of up to 700 * 576 pixels with 256 colour equipped to address all of these needs very and execution of computationally selectable from 16.7 million. The Pluto cost effectively. For specialised text and word processing, demanding programs in a variety of GCAL and VuWRITER are available and graphics libraries allow the user to access Storage languages and with support for several the Matrix-3 three-dimensional Pluto primitives from C, FORTRAN and On-line storage in the Acorn Cambridge filing systems. Supplied as standard are spreadsheet is a scientific version of the BASIC. Workstation is 4 megabytes of RAM, all of four compilers complying with industry table manipulation programs which have To support the IEEE interface, a package which is recognised by the PANOS standard versions of the popular high level become popular for the general of utilities enabling an Acorn Cambridge operating system and is available to the languages FORTRAN 77, ISO PASCAL, commercial user. For the mathematician series processor to act as an IEEE 488 users' tasks with only a small operating C and Cambridge LISP. Thanks to the the NAG FORTRAN library is system controller is available. Procedures system overhead, typcially 110 Kbytes. procedural model for program execution implemented, as are REDUCE and controlling the IEEE commands can be The Acorn Cambridge Workstation has used by PANOS, inter-language calls are CAMAL, the algebraic programming called from high level languages under 20 Mbytes of Winchester technology disc fully supported between FORTRAN, C systems. Statistics cart be handled by the PANOS. In addition to the supplied languages, versions of BCPL, Modula-2, ML and PROLOG are available for the Acorn Scientific range. Thanks to the exceptional price performance characteristics of the range continuing development of implementations of popular high level languages can be expected, along with toolpacks and utilities. The porting process can be aided by two communications packages. Kermit is a widely used file transfer protocol, allowing asynchronous communication between different machines each running its own version of Kermit. Local-Link is a two part file transfer package tailored for Acorn Cambridge products. The two parts comprise a terminal emulator which runs under PANOS and the Link program which is available for various configurations of VAX and Prime computers. Throughout the text, the British Broadcasting Corporation is abbreviated to BBC. The information in this brochure and supplements to it are subject to continuous development and improvement, All information of a technical nature and particulars of the products and usage are given in good faith and believed to be correct at the time of printing, However Acorn Computers Limited cannot accept liability for loss or damage arising from the use of any information or particulars in this brochure or any supplements to it. APP91a HEAD OFFTCE ALL ENQUTRTES TO Acorn Computers Limited Telephone (0223) 245200 Scientific Products Information Telephone (0223) 214411 Fulbourn Road, Cherry Hinton Telex 817875 ACORN G Acorn Computers Limited Telex 81152 ACNNMR G Cambridge CBI 47N, England Fax (0223) 210685 Cambridge Technopark Fax (0223) 214382 645 Newmarket Road Viewdata (0223) 243642 Cambridge CB5 8PD, England .