An Approach to a Multiple User Laboratory

Abstract

At the present time it is difficult to merge several scientifically oriented users and their specialized instruments together into one real-time computer using existing vendor supplied real-time operating systems. Considerable time and money can be wasted by trying to get all the scientific users trained in the detail of a real-time system. Likewise, it is not desirable to have the scientist work through a systems programmer every time he desires to make a slight (or major) change in a data analysis program. The approach discussed provides for a fortran programing capability for the scientist which appears to him to be basically the same as any batch processing system, but yet is in the real-time environment processing data obtained directly from laboratory instruments.