Computing Books published by BSP Professional Books

The following is a list of Computing Books published by BSP Professional Books in the Centre for Computing History collection. It is not an exhaustive list of and other books may have been published. If you have a book that you would like to donate to our collection, please view our donations page.

There are 4 Computing Books published by BSP Professional Books in our collection :
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A Tutorial Introduction to Occam Programming Date: 11st March 1988 A Tutorial Introduction to Occam Programming

There is an increasing trend towards parallel computing both in business and in the scientific and engineering fields. Occam is rapidly being seen as an effective solution to the problem of programming concurrent systems of all kinds, and as a powerful tool for describing convurrent algorithms.

The aim of the book is to introduce the reader to concurrent programming using the occam language. Ir provides examples of occam programming and discusses the novel concepts which occam employes. The second half of the book provides a formal description of the occam language.

The authors:

Dick Pountain is UK Contributing Editor to BYTE magazine. he is ex-Managing Director of Personal Computer World and Soft magazines. he is the author of a previous book on object-oriented programming in FORTH.

David May is Transputer architecture manager at INMOS Bristol Microprocessor Development Centre, UK. He has been responsible for designing occam and developing the Transputer architecture.

Publisher: BSP Professional Books

Platform: Transputer

Locoscript 2 on the Amstrad PCW Date: 1987 Locoscript 2 on the Amstrad PCW

First Edition.

You do not need to know about computers to master word processing: you do not even need to have used a typewriter. Without guidance, however, teaching oneself to use a word processor can be a tedious and frustrating task, even with the Amstrad PCW.

This book enables beginners to learn professional word processing techniques really quickly without having to wade through long manuals. By following Ian Sinclair's clear examples and instructions you will soon be using your system for:

Publisher: BSP Professional Books
Author: Ian Sinclair
Platform: Amstrad PCW 8356/8512 and 9512

Locoscript 2 on the Amstrad PCW (amended) Date: 1988 Locoscript 2 on the Amstrad PCW (amended)

First published 1987, this amended edition 1988 - includes Locomail and Locospell.

You do not need to know about computers to master word processing: you do not even need to have used a typewriter. Without guidance, however, teaching oneself to use a word processor can be a tedious and frustrating task, even with the Amstrad PCW.

This book enables beginners to learn professional word processing techniques really quickly without having to wade through long manuals. By following Ian Sinclair's clear examples and instructions you will soon be using your system for:

  • Business letters, reports, invoices
  • Envelopes and labels
  • Stored phrases and paragraphs
  • Forms and tables
  • Multiple letters
  • Long documents such as manuscript and magazine articles

Publisher: BSP Professional Books
Author: Ian Sinclair
Platform: Amstrad PCW

Working with dBASE II Date: 1985 Working with dBASE II

ISBN-13: 978-0632023059
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches

Publisher: BSP Professional Books
Author: M. de Pace
Platform: dBASE

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