The ARCOL/System

A new sofware/ hardware system for high-speed automatic page composition is described. One of the features of the system is a central processor comprising four central processing units shown in Fig. 2 of the text. The CPU internal organization, in combination with programs written in the processor´s programming language, provides very high-speed page makeup. This paper describes the language and illustrates the operation of the system in composing, formatting and setting tabular data at high speed via an off-line photocomposer.