TEXT PROCESSOR HAVING AN INTERACTIVE DISPLAY TERMINAL WHICH ALTERNATELY FUNCTIONS AS A DATA PROCESSING TERMINAL

摘要

AT9-81-057A TEXT PROCESSOR HAVING AN INTERACTIVEDISPLAY TERMINAL WHICH ALTERNATELY FUNCTIONSAS A DATA PROCESSING TERMINALAbstractThe disclosure relates to an improvement to aninformation processing system for conducting dataprocessing operations wherein the processing relatesto the valve of the information and conducting textprocessing operations wherein the processing affectsonly the format of information. The improvementprovides the combination of means for initiating adata processing session in said system, means forswitching to a text processing session before thecompletion of the data processing session, means forstoring the status of the non-completed data proces-sing session during the text processing session, andmeans for switching back from the text processingsession to the non-completed data processing session.