[ont.events] UW Systems Seminar, Dr. Cargill on "The Blit Debugger'

mwang (01/11/83)

               DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
               UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
               SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

               SYSTEMS SEMINAR - Friday, January 14, 1983.

               Dr. Tom Cargill of Bell Laboratories will speak on "The Blit
               Debugger".

               TIME:  3:30 PM

               ROOM:  M&C 5158

               ABSTRACT

               This talk describes the evolution to date of a flexible  de-
               bugger for C programs on the Blit, a multi-processing bitmap
               terminal.  The debugger is of  interest  for  the  following
               reasons:

               -  it is assisted by the  terminal  software's  elegant
                  separation of the debugger from its subject process.

               -  it resides autonomously in the terminal and is bound
                  dynamically to arbitrary subject processes.

               -  it executes asynchronously with  its  subject.   its
                  implementation  is distributed as a small process in
                  the  terminal  and  a  large  process  in  the  host
                  timesharing system.

               -  its user interface uses graphics and a mouse.

                                  January 11, 1983