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Software for Industrial Computer Control - A Review

Wanderley Diehl
- 01 May 1976 - 
- Vol. 9, Iss: 2, pp 279-285
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Recent trends in system and application software for industrial computer control, such as the standardization of real-time extensions to FORTRAN, the emergence ofreal-time BASIC as a simple measurement and control language and the distribution of process control functions among multi-computers in a network are reviewed.
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This article is published in IFAC Proceedings Volumes.The article was published on 1976-05-01. It has received 1 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Real-time Control System Software & Software system.

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Interpretive Language for Sequence Control of Chemical Processes

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Process control software

TL;DR: The nature of the software which is necessary so that a real-time computer may be used to control industrial processes is examined, and the programming problems associated with developing such a system are discussed.
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Extended FORTRAN for Process Control

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CDC 1700 FORTRAN for Process Control

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Fortran IV in a Process Control Environment

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