Norsk Data - Software

Software

In addition to hardware, Norsk Data also produced a wide range of system and application software:

• NORD-TSS – Nord Time Sharing System from 1971
• SINTRAN – Operating system for Nord 10 and later models, version III from 1973, III/VS in 1974
• SIBAS database in 1975
• FORTRAN compiler
• ND-Paint Graphic editing - Windows based
• BASIC compiler developed in Kiel and Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany with the CAT-System (Common Abstract Tree-Language) using the Vienna Development Method, 1983
• COBOL compiler
• C compiler developed in Kiel and Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany with the CAT-System using the Vienna Development Method, 1984
• PLANC compiler - PLANC was the system language of Norsk Data - a language "defined by its implementation"
• Pascal compiler developed by Prof. Dr. Hans Langmaack and his team at Kiel University in Germany with the CAT-System using the Vienna Development Method, 1982
• PED – "Programmer's EDitor" Screen oriented text editor
• LED – "Language-sensitive programmer's EDitor" Screen oriented text editor and debugger
• ND-NOTIS – Integrated, modular word processing and office application suite
• NORTEXT – typesetting system integrated with ND-NOTIS and SIBAS
• Lisp Machine Lisp – MIT Lisp machine lisp developed in a joint venture Racal-Norsk.
• Technovision - CAD system developed in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
  Technovision was a modular CAD/CAM system which was internationally considered to be one of the best on the market. It was in part designed by Norsk Data Dietz GmbH. A special workstation named the Technostation was designed specifically for running Technovision. It was extremely well received by international press, and even won a design award.
• BIBDIA - Library system developed by Norsk Data Dietz GmbH in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
  BIBDIA was further developed by BiBer GmbH since 1992. The current WEB-based version is still running as a market leader in Germany and Switzerland.

Along with the above listed applications two batch languages were included, called JEC and XCOM. JEC was used primarily as a simple batch job controller, whereas XCOM was used for much more involved routines such as operating system patches etc. Most of the applications came in two different editions, one compiled for the NORD-10/ND-100 series and one compiled for the ND-500/ND-5000 series.

When ND discontinued NOTIS development in 1989, it was continued by NOTIS AS, which later changed its name to Maxware

A point of note: the World Wide Web originated when Tim Berners-Lee wrote the ENQUIRE program in Pascal on a Norsk Data NORD-10 running under SINTRAN III at CERN.