FCC Chooses Minis Over Personals

Article Abstract:

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) selected minicomputers, at a cost-per-user of $5,000, with terminals located in individual departments, to automate office functions. Minicomputers with terminals, rather than personal computers, were selected because of lower cost and the FCC's philosophy that work is not personal in nature. If an employee is working on a personal computer and is absent for a day, other members of the unit cannot get to that employee's information. The FCC prefers taking a division of twenty-five employees and giving them eight or nine terminals.

Minicomputers, Computer terminals, Personal Computers, Computer Terminal, Low Cost, Minicomputer, FCC, Government

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Navy Establishes Software Interface Standards for Incompatible Systems

Article Abstract:

The Document Interchange Format (DIF) was recently established by the Navy to promote software interface standards and increase compatibility between systems. DIF was developed under the auspices of the Department of the Navy Office Automation and Communications Systems Office to provide a standard office automation network for the Navy Secretariat and other Navy and Marine Corps commands. About eighty vendors are interested in the possibility of compliance.

Software, Standard, Standardization, Networks, Compatibility, Interface, Vendors, Navy

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