screenwrite

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screenwrite - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Screenwrite
  
     <language> A columnar format third generation programming language
      similar in layout to assembler and used for
     transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull
     TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level
     6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system
     .  In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities
     and the Ministry of Defense.  Being proprietary technology,
     its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems
     standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages
      but it is believed that some systems made it
     through Y2K.
  
     [Dates?]
  
     (2003-05-15)