CAMAC Software

The direct benefits of using CAMAC are already well known. However, the use of a standard, computer independent, input/output structure such as CAMAC can have considerable benefits in the software field. For the first time input/output statements and interrupt statements in a high-level language can intimately control the devices coupled to the computer. This paper describes the work that has been done to date to exploit this new feature of real-time systems and indicates the likely impact on real-time programming.