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KAMAS, an acronym for ''Knowledge and Mind Amplification System'', from Compusophic Systems, then Kamasoft (Aloha, Oregon), was in the 1980's the most influentual outliner or outline processor, and the first for CP/M. It was a type of word processor that edited outline elements, enabling showing, hiding, promotion, demotion, and moving (cutting and pasting) of outline trees ("branches"). Each string of text occupied a "leaf". While some modern word processing programs include limited outline capability, none has the features of KAMAS. A number of outline processors exist for MS-DOS, Windows, and the Mac platforms. 〔They are reviewed by Allen Kent, "Computer Programs: Outliners", ''Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science'', Volume 48, Supplement 12, CRC Press, 1991, ISBN 0256116997, pp. 175-220, by John Redmood, "Overview of Windows Outlining Programs," no date, but states "not updated since 2004," http://john.redmood.com/organizers.html, retrieved 2014-09-07, and the two articles of LaRue already cited.〕 None has achieved a significant market share, or the enthusiastic user base which supported KAMAS. Adam Trent was president of Kamasoft and the central figure in the development of the program. The initial price was $147. In addition to the outline processor, KAMAS was also released with a programming language, a threaded interpreter most similar to FORTH. It was found "complex and not easily learned," and most purchasers of KAMAS never used it.〔Mark Renne, "KAMAS. The first outline processor for CP/M machines", ''Infoworld'', October 8, 1984, pp. 64-66, http://books.google.com/books?id=Ci8EAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=infoworld+oct.+8,+1984&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mgwNVLOOOIG1sQSbmICQDA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=infoworld%20oct.%208%2C%201984&f=false, retrieved September 2015 and http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/content/computing/Kamasoft/KamasInfoWorldAarticleFlyerOct8_984.pdf, retrieved September 2015〕 A simpler version, Out-Think, was released in 1986.〔Advertisement published in ''Profiles'' (Kaypro Corporation's magazine), Volume 4, No. 1, July, 1986, p. 19, archived at https://archive.org/stream/PROFILES_Volume_4_Number_1_1986-07_Kaypro_Corp_US#page/n19/mode/2up, retrieved September 2015. It was reviewed in the same issue, Ted Silveira, "Idea Processors", pp. 21-26.〕 The price was $69.95; the price for KAMAS had dropped to $99.95. Some disks of auxiliary utility programs were sold.〔Untitled, http://gopherproxy.meulie.net/gopher.floodgap.com/0/archive/walnut-creek-cd-simtel/LAMBDA/CATALOG.TXT, retrieved September 2015; untitled, http://www.retroarchive.org/cpm/cdrom/_BBS/WC30/ALLFILES.TXT, retrieved September 2015〕 KAMAS, released in 1984, was the last important application written for the CP/M operating system. Its "home" computer was the Kaypro. An MS-DOS version was released, without the programming language. The only output was print, or an untagged file image of the printed output, which required extensive editing to import into a word processing program. Except for a limited export in the DOS version to other outline processors such as ThinkTank, there was no file export conserving the outline structure, nor did anyone external develop a conversion. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「KAMAS (program)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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