Abstract: A telephone multiline inquiry voice answer system is realized by employing a minicomputer system. Predetermined voice signals are digitally encoded and stand in a disk memory. In response to requests from one or more of the telephone lines the computer central processor determines which digital words are required from the disk to form a desired response message. The digital words are read from the disk to word buffers in dedicated storage stages in one or more storage units in a random access memory. Each storage unit is assigned to a "fixed" number of output lines while each storage stage is assigned to a particular output line. A direct memory access output multiplexer is employed to read the digital words from loaded word buffers in the storage stages to corresponding output lines without substantial processor control. To this end, the multiplexer includes output modules in conjunction with a common control module to effect the desired transfer.

Abstract: A multiline inquiry-response system is realized by employing a minicomputer system. Predetermined signals are digitally encoded and stored in a disk memory. In response to requests from one or more lines, the computer central processor determines which digital words are required from the disk. The digital words are read from the disk memory to a plurality of registers in one or more of a plurality of dedicated buffer storage stages in a core memory. Each buffer stage is assigned to a designated output line. A direct memory access output multiplexer (DMAMUX) is employed to read the digital words from the registers in the loaded dedicated buffer storage stages to corresponding output lines without substantial processor control. To this end, the multiplexer monitors address signals transmitted in the computer system to detect which ones of the buffer storage stages include registers that have been loaded with digital words from the disk memory.