Interactive display terminal with alternating data processing and text processing sessions with text processing status line operable during data processing session
First Claim
1. In an information processing system comprising an interactive display terminal used with a word processor to display text in a word processing mode wherein the word processing operations affect only the format of the displayed text or alternately used with a data processor to display data in a data processing mode wherein the data processing operations affects the value of the displayed data, said interactive display terminal displaying a data processing message line to the operator while in the data processing mode and said word processor being capable of carrying out a background word processing task while said interactive display terminal is in the data processing mode, the improvement comprising,means operative during the data processing mode of the interactive display terminal and while a background word processing task is being performed for displaying a message to the operator relative to the word processing task.
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Abstract
A display word processor (11) has the capability of emulating a data processing terminal for a host data processor (10) in an information processing system. With such a capability, the display word processor may be switched between data processing and word or text processing sessions. In this information processing system, the interactive display (17) is operable during data processing sessions to display a word processing message when a word processing task is being carried out as a background task during the data processing session. The word processing message may be displayed on a message line (7) which may be shared with a data processing message. Alternatively, if the interactive display terminal (17'"'"') is large enough, the word processing message line (9) may be displayed in an area dedicated to the word processing message.
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1. In an information processing system comprising an interactive display terminal used with a word processor to display text in a word processing mode wherein the word processing operations affect only the format of the displayed text or alternately used with a data processor to display data in a data processing mode wherein the data processing operations affects the value of the displayed data, said interactive display terminal displaying a data processing message line to the operator while in the data processing mode and said word processor being capable of carrying out a background word processing task while said interactive display terminal is in the data processing mode, the improvement comprising,
means operative during the data processing mode of the interactive display terminal and while a background word processing task is being performed for displaying a message to the operator relative to the word processing task.
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