Domesday Technical Documentation

This page contains technical documentation about the Domesday system.

Domesday Retrieval System Functional Specification

Thanks to a kind loan from Peter Armstrong (the BAFTA award winning editor of the Domesday project), the original BBC/Logica functional specification for the retrieval software is now available as a PDF. Please use the following link to download:

This document, finalized in 1985, was used by the Logica development team to guide the development of the BCPL applications for both the National and Community discs.