ZETS
PLANICOMP
HP2G276
HE 1 Color Terminal
900 HP9111A
Taniet
Fig.3 Configuration of an interactive graphics system on
Zeiss Plani comp
5.2 Wild Avi olyt
The manufacturer provides TEDIT software as an option to
edit digital maps on Wild Aviolyt BC2. Hovever it works
relatively slouly with limited functions and some restric-
ti ons /9/. The author designed a full-functional interac-
tive graphics system using the same devices used by* TEDI T:
a Tektronix 4109 color graphics terminal and a Tektroni x
4957 graphics tablet (Fig.4) to edit digital maps stored on
Wild BC2 MP-files. The DG30 microcomputer, which controls
BC2, is rather a lou performance computer. But the RDOS
operating system still provides virtual memory feature /2/.
Thanks to the powerful firmware of the Tektronix 4109 ter-
minal /7/ /8/, the use of host CPU is mini mi zed and the in-
teractive operation responds promptly. This example pre-
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