38-1097: OPL may stand for: Computing and technology [ edit ] Open Programming Language Optical path length Optimization Programming Language , a modelling language designed for the CPLEX Optimization software FM Operator Type-L , a series of sound chips made by Yamaha : YM3526 (OPL) YM3812 (OPL2) YMF262 (OPL3) YMF278 (OPL4) Libraries [ edit ] Oakville Public Library , in Oakville, Ontario Oshawa Public Library , in Oshawa, Ontario Ottawa Public Library , in Ottawa, Ontario One-person library Omaha Public Library , in Omaha, Nebraska Orem Public Library , in Orem, Utah Sports [ edit ] Oceanic Pro League ,
76-511: A word processor , database , spreadsheet , and business graphics application. These were later ported to DOS and made available for the IBM PC and ACT's Sirius and Apricot computers, collectively called PC-Four , or Xchange in an enhanced version. Xchange was also available for ICL's One Per Desk computer, which was based on the QL. In 1984, Psion first entered the hardware market with
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152-483: A Series 5 based set-top box , the Wavefinder DAB radio , and an attempt to add Dragon's speech recognition software to a PDA. Ericsson cancelled a Series 5MX derived smartphone project in 2001. Psion had sold its sole manufacturing plant in 1999 and started to withdraw from its PDA markets in late 2001, shedding 250 of 1,200 staff and writing-off £40 million. The PDA, which was once a niche market, had become
190-533: A completely new product from the 32-bit hardware upwards through the OS, UI, and applications. It is still remembered for its high quality keyboard which, despite its size, allowed for touch-typing. However, the new feel of the product, and the removal of certain familiar quirks, alienated loyal Series 3 users, who tended to stick with their PDAs rather than upgrade. In 1999, Psion released the Psion Series 7 , which
228-616: A core part of their strategy. In its last years, Psion made tailored and customized modular variants of its products through its online community, Ingenuity Working. Launched in March 2010, Ingenuity Working had more than 35,000 visitors per month within its first six months. In January 2011, the launched a new logo, simultaneously removing Teklogix from its operating company name. Motorola Solutions announced in June 2012 that it had agreed to acquire Psion for $ 200 million. Psion registered
266-711: A former professional League of Legends league in Oceania Oman Professional League , an association football league in Oman Other [ edit ] Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra , abbreviated to OPL On Patrol: Live , an American docuseries that uses the abbreviation OPL Optique & Précision de Levallois (1911-1964), a former French optical company Open Publication License , license predating Creative Commons licenses Operating lease Organisation du Peuple en Lutte (" Struggling People's Organization "),
304-462: A generic term to describe "small laptops that are designed for wireless communication and access to the Internet", believing they were "not offering a branded line of computers here" and "see no naming conflict". In response to the growing use of the term, on 23 December 2008 Psion Teklogix sent cease and desist letters to various parties including enthusiast website(s) demanding they no longer use
342-461: A global horizontal marketplace where it was difficult for Psion to compete. The final blow for Psion's Organiser and PDA business came in January 2001 when Motorola pulled out of a joint project with Psion, Samsung, and Parthus, to create "Odin", an ARM-based PDA-phone. In 2000, Psion acquired Teklogix of Canada for £240 million, and merged its business-to-business division, Psion Enterprise, with
380-403: A large independent software market. In 1987, Psion began developing its SIxteen Bit Organiser (SIBO) family of devices and its own new multitasking operating system named EPOC , to run its third generation product, Laptops (MC), industrial handhelds (HC and Workabout) and PDA (Series 3) products. It is often rumoured that EPOC stands for "Electronic Piece Of Cheese" however Colly Myers, who
418-791: A lengthy, but distant, interest in Linux as an operating system on its electronic devices. In 1998, it supported the Linux7K project that had been initiated by Ed Bailey at Red Hat , which was to port Linux to its Series 5 personal computer. The project was named after the Cirrus Logic PS-7110 chip of the Series 5. Although this project was one of the earliest attempts to port Linux to a handheld computer, it did not come to fruition for Psion. The project soon transitioned to an informal open-source software project at Calcaria.net that kept
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#1732772078068456-519: Is assigned the shortcut of Ctrl+y, while No has Ctrl+n, represented by %y and %n respectively. The user's input from the DIALOG is tested in the IF statement, PRINTing appropriate responses to the screen. Note that the 'GET' keyword, which gets user input without using a dialog box, is here used simply to wait for a keypress before terminating the program (otherwise it would end immediately without giving time for
494-478: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Open Programming Language Open Programming Language ( OPL ) is a programming language for embedded systems and mobile devices that run the operating systems EPOC and Symbian . It was released by the British company Psion in 1984. Originally designed for use on their classic Psion PDAs such as
532-635: Is the console version of a "Hello, World!" program : (Source code taken from the PCDevPrimer in the OPL Wiki.) And here is a GUI version for Nokia's Series 80 user interface: OPL is a structured programming language. OPL programs contain PROCedures, which are much like functions ( subroutines ) in other programming languages. An example: In this cruel interrogative program, the Yes button
570-533: The Horace series . Psion Chess was later ported to other platforms, including the early Macintosh in 1984. Early software releases for the ZX Spectrum included titles such as VU-Calc, VU-File and VU-3D , along with dozens of other titles. The company name is an acronym standing for "Potter Scientific Instruments", after the company's founder, David Potter . The acronym PSI was already in use elsewhere in
608-525: The FTSE 100 Index . Psion's operational business was formed in September 2000 from a merger of Psion and Canadian-based Teklogix Inc., and was a global provider of solutions for mobile computing and wireless data collection. The Group's products and services included rugged mobile hardware , secure software and wireless networks , professional services, and support programs. Psion worked with its clients in
646-527: The Psion Organiser , an early handheld computer, in appearance resembling a pocket calculator with an alphanumeric computer keyboard . In 1986, the vastly improved Psion Organiser II was released, and was assembled by Speedboard Assembly Services. Its success led the company into a decade long period of Psion Computer and operating system development. It included the simple-to-use Open Programming Language (OPL) for database programming, which sparked
684-702: The Series 3 , 5/5mx , Series 7 , and netBook –netPad, and the Psion produced MC218 , OPL was provided as part of the standard application suite. It can also be installed on the Nokia 9200, 9300 and 9500 Communicator series mobile telephone and personal digital assistant (PDA) and the Sony Ericsson P800 , P900 , P910 series. OPL is also included in Psion Teklogix industrial handhelds such as
722-471: The Sony Ericsson P900 series. Psion had previously sought to expand into mobile telephony itself, having engaged in talks to acquire Amstrad – mainly for its Dancall subsidiary – in 1996. Although Amstrad's owner and founder, Alan Sugar, had reportedly been seeking to sell the entire business, no agreement could apparently be made on a price or on "a plan for the disposal of the other parts of
760-641: The personal digital assistant market, a project aiming to bring OPL to Symbian came to fruition, when the fledgling Symbian Developer Program released it as open-source software . The language is now available on SourceForge in a project named opl-dev . The language is currently unavailable for Symbian OS v8 and later. With the subsequent retirement of the Symbian OS, it seems unlikely OPL will be made available for later generations of Symbian devices. As of 2010, Nokia device developers were encouraged to use Python for S60 instead (See Python for S60 ). Here
798-537: The Amstrad Group". This setback left Psion promising "to introduce GSM-based products during 1997". Meanwhile, Psion did license EPOC to Digital Equipment Corporation so that the system could be ported to Digital's StrongARM processor. The development of new and updated products by Psion slowed after the Symbian spin-off. Other products failed or had limited success; these included Psion Siemens' GSM device,
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#1732772078068836-494: The Workabout mx, and it also appeared in the lesser known Oregon 'Osaris' organiser, a broadly compatible EPOC32 device that uniquely used version 4 of the OS. OPL is an interpreted language similar to BASIC . A fully Visual Basic -compatible language OVAL has also been developed. The language was originally named Organiser Programming Language , developed by Psion Ltd for the Psion Organiser . Designed by Colly Myers with
874-545: The area of burgeoning technologies, including imaging , voice recognition , and radio-frequency identification (RFID). They had operations worldwide in 14 countries, and customers in more than 80 countries. Formed in 1980, Psion first achieved success as a consumer hardware company that developed the Psion Organiser and a wide range of more sophisticated clamshell personal digital assistants (PDAs). Psion either closed or disposed of all its prior operations and then focused on rugged mobile computing systems. It withdrew from
912-590: The consumer device market in 2001. Motorola Solutions announced in June 2012 that it had agreed to acquire Psion for $ 200 million. Psion was established in 1980 as a software house with a close relationship with Sinclair Research . The company developed games and other software for the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum home computers , released under the Sinclair/Psion brand. Psion's games for the ZX Spectrum included Chess , Chequered Flag , Flight Simulation and
950-522: The eventual formation of Symbian Ltd. in June 1998 in conjunction with Nokia , Ericsson and Motorola . The OS was renamed the Symbian Operating System and was envisioned as the base for a new range of smartphones . Psion transferred 130 key staff to the new company and retained a 31% shareholding in the spun-out business. By 2007, the Symbian operating system powered around 125 million mobile phones, including many Nokia models and
988-689: The first iteration implemented by Richard Harrison and Martin Stamp. The first implementation (without graphics) was for the original Psion Organiser (now referred to as the Psion Organiser I, 1984), and it came bundled with the Science, Finance and Math data packs . It became truly accessible as built-in software in the Psion Organiser II (1986), and the language went on to be used in the Psion Series 3 and later. After Psion retired from
1026-559: The name Linux7K. After the project transitioned again to sourceforge.net, the project's name was changed to a more general name PsiLinux , and later to OpenPsion . The project has developed Linux kernels and file systems for the Revo , Series 5 and 5MX , and Series 7 and netBook . In 2003–4, Psion Teklogix and its founder David Potter expressed interest in Linux as the operating system for its devices as it divested from Symbian. However,
1064-601: The newly acquired company. Teklogix was rebranded Psion Teklogix , and this division formed the core of Psion Plc's business. In 2002, Psion launched the Psion Software division. This business developed push email solutions for Symbian smartphones, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes . This business was sold to Visto of the United States in 2003. In 2004, Psion disposed of the company's remaining Symbian shareholding to Nokia, as they no longer regarded it as
1102-475: The only result of that interest was Linux as the operating system on a limited number of custom NetBook Pros designed for a hospital setting. The Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset project has produced a small subset of Linux that runs on Psion Series 3 PDAs. All these PDAs except the Psion netpad have a small keyboard , which excepting the Organiser, HC and Workabout was of the standard QWERTY layout, or
1140-549: The term " netbook ". In early 2009, Intel sued Psion Teklogix (US & Canada) and Psion (UK) in the Federal Court, seeking a cancellation of the trademark and an order enjoining Psion from asserting any trademark rights in the term "netbook", a declarative judgement regarding their use of the term, attorneys' fees, costs and disbursements and "such other and further relief as the Court deems just and proper". The suit
1178-652: The trademark Netbook in various territories, including the European Union and U.S. Trademark 75,215,401 , which was applied for on 18 December 1996 and registered by USPTO on 21 November 2000. They used this trademark for the Psion netBook product, discontinued in November 2003, and from October 2003, the NETBOOK PRO, later also discontinued. Intel started using the term netbook in March 2008 as
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1216-512: The user to read the text). The output from DIALOG can also be stored in a variable. Variables specific to a procedure must be declared with the LOCAL keyword; global variables are defined with the GLOBAL keyword. The table below uses an example variable named var . OPL interfaced with advanced Psion Series 3 features by means of operating system CALLs, but in the later Psion Series 5mx this
1254-470: The world so "ON" was added to make the name unique. Potter remained managing director until 1999 and was chairman of the company until late 2009. In early 1983, Sinclair approached Psion regarding the development of a suite of office applications for the forthcoming Sinclair QL personal computer . Psion were already working on a project in this area, and when the QL was launched in 1984 it was bundled with Quill , Archive , Abacus and Easel ; respectively
1292-617: Was Symbian's CEO from founding until 2002, said in an interview that it stood for 'epoch' and nothing more. This development effort produced the clamshell QWERTY-based Psion Series 3 palmtops (1993–98), which sold in the hundreds of thousands, and the Psion MC-series laptops, which sold poorly compared to the DOS-based laptops of the era. A second effort, dubbed Project Protea, produced the Psion Series 5 for sale in 1997,
1330-765: Was a designer and manufacturer of mobile handheld computers for commercial and industrial uses. The company was headquartered in London , England, with major operations in Mississauga , Ontario, Canada, and other company offices in Europe, the United States, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. It was a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange ( LSE : PON ) and was once a constituent of
1368-492: Was changed to a so-called OPX library , stored in the system read-only memory (ROM), termed the Z drive. 'OPX' libraries were also made available for the Nokia 9210 , Nokia 9300 and Nokia 9500 Communicators, adding OPXs routines for handling Short Message Service ( SMS ) and managing Bluetooth communication. Other OPL features include those starting with a letter: g for graphical functions, m for menus, and d for dialogs. Psion (company) Psion PLC
1406-566: Was much like a larger version of the Series 5, but with a double-size VGA-resolution screen that featured 256 colours (the Series 5 had a half-VGA screen with 16 grey shades). It was followed by the very similar Psion netBook . Psion was being challenged by the arrival of cheaper PDAs such as the Palm Pilot , and PocketPCs running Microsoft's Windows CE , and in 2003, Psion released a Netbook Pro running Windows CE .NET 4.2 instead of EPOC. The 32-bit EPOC developed by Project Protea resulted in
1444-700: Was settled out of court, and on June 2, 2009, Psion announced that the company was withdrawing all of its trademark registrations for the term "Netbook" and that Psion agreed to "waive all its rights against third parties in respect of past, current or future use" of the term. Similar marks were rejected by the USPTO citing a "likelihood of confusion" under section 2(d), including 'G NETBOOK' ( U.S. Trademark 77,527,311 rejected 31 October 2008), Micro-Star International 's (MSI) 'WIND NETBOOK' ( U.S. Trademark 77,580,272 ) and Coby Electronics ' 'COBY NETBOOK' ( U.S. Trademark 77,590,174 rejected 13 January 2009) Psion had
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