NODAL

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NODAL (Network-Oriented Document Abstraction Language[1]) is an interpreted language implemented on Norsk Data's NORD-10 computers. Used by CERN and DESY high energy physics labs to control their accelerator hardware, PADAC and SEDAC. Included trackball input, graphics.[2]

NODAL allows commands to be written in one place and executed somewhere else.[3]

Sources

  1. Acronym Finder - NODAL
  2. Free Online Dictionary of Computing - NODAL
  3. How the web was born, James Gillies & Robert Cailliau, 2000, page 74, 176

The NODAL system for the SPS - 1974.