The APM documentation is always under review. The most up-to-date information can be found in HELP, though some items are documentated in hard copy only (or not at all!). JHB has accumulated a "definitive" hard copy of all APM documentation with an index and welcomes constructive comments. The APM documentation is indexed under HELP DOCINDEX but this is something of a stopgap. The remaining sections expand a little on the documents in the index and use the same numbering scheme. A hard copy of HELP information on <topic> can be obtained by listing VIEW:<topic> to a convenient printer. (This is also a stopgap and should not really be encouraged.)
The APM working documents give a general description of the APM system and environment, concentrating mainly on the hardware. These notes are somewhat out of date and are being extensively revised.
HELP APM gives a more up-to-date version of the working documents, concentrating more on the basic commands. HELP SFP gives more details about the Software Front Panel debugging aid.
IMP
The language itself is covered by "The IMP-77 language Internal report " (Peter Robertson) and by HELP IMP. Run-time libraries are covered by HELP LIB, the "IMP-77 Core Environment Definition" (Lattice Logic) and the "Summary of Major IMP libraries (1984)" (Gordon Hughes). Further facilities have to be looked for in the include-files in filestore directories I: and INC:.
"A Programmer's guide to the EUCSD Ethernet" (R.Thonnes) covers the basic Ethernet concepts and describes the available functions. The "Standard Virtual Terminal Interface" (H. Dewar) describes a set of high-level procedures for using character terminals. "Asynchronous Character I/O to and from the local terminal" (J. Butler) describes the lower level aspects of character I/O.
The LAYOUT 1.5 Users Guide (H.Dewar) describes the LAYOUT text formatting program. HELP ECCE describes the ECCE editor for the APM.
A variety of utilities are described in HELP UTILITIES. Some further student utilities are documented in USEFUL:HELP.
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