Jim Beacon wrote:
While at college, I remember using a package called
GHOST Graphics [...]
I suspect that the software was running under VMS, and
I vaguely remember
using the standard editor to produce reports for assignments.
Has anyone else used this package, or better still, have a copy?
It is scary to think that it is nearly twenty years since I worked at
the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Culham Labs, Oxfordshire, the home of
GHOST. There was a Software Applications Group, and I worked my sandwich
year there from July 1987 to August 1988, with about three other
students. One of them got to work on GHOST development, whereas I only
had to use it to update an accounting package for the PRIME network.
COST3D took the numbers from PRIMROSE (a tortuous acronym) to produce
some pretty graphs to demonstrate the trend away from using the
minicomputer networks and mainframes (Primes and VAXen at Culham, and
the IBM 3084Q and Cray 2 at Harwell) towards workstations (sexy black
Whitechapel MG-1s).
IIRC, GHOST was written in FORTRAN, as most of our applications were,
and created and maintained by a Mr Prior (I'm not being formal -- I
can't remember his name, despite Google's hint that his initials are WAJ).
Unfortunately, my Industrial Training Report doesn't provide any more
details, and I can't find the few graphs from that time that I printed
from one of the Tektronix terminals. No software
either, sorry!
--
Paul