A system to speed airline travel

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United Airlines' Covia Corp is in the forefront of distributed processing with its network control center at O'Hare International Airport. The token ring network, developed in association with IBM, parcels out tasks, which were formerly performed by mainframes, to hundreds of microcomputers and workstations. The devices on reservation agents' desks send and receive data to Covia's mainframes, in Denver for reservation management and in Chicago for crew scheduling. The mainframes become more of a electronic librarian, leaving the actual processing to the micros. Covia's system has 23 sub-networks and can handle up to 2,000 nodes. The system is also a testing ground for the concept of open systems. Covia's Open Systems Manager software closely resembles IBM's Systems Network Architecture and permits computers from different manufacturers to share data and applications. Covia has yet to expand the network to network to other hubs and is just beginning to expand it to include services for other companies.

Air transportation, scheduled, Airlines, Information management, Airports, United Air Lines Inc., Distributed processing (Computers), Distributed computing, Chicago-O'Hare International Airport, Token ring networks, Distributed Processing, Airline Industry, Token Ring Network, Covia Corp.

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I.B.M. in technology pact with Thinking Machines

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IBM and Thinking Machines Corp will cooperate, bringing IBM's mainframe expertise together with Thinking Machines' experience in massively parallel computing. Thinking Machines makes a computer that consists of as many as 64,000 small processors. IBM has already signed a joint development contract with Supercomputing Systems Inc. Questions therefore now arise about IBM's future relationships with the two supercomputer companies. IBM says the two agreements are separate. Supercomputing Systems Inc pursues its own unique approach to development, which involves an architecture based on fewer and more costly custom-designed microprocessors, and IBM will will continue with its Supercomputing Systems plans. It seems increasingly probable that massively parallel technology will be important in scientific and technical computing. IBM's new agreement is similar to one signed by Digital Equipment Corp and Masspar Inc earlier in 1991.

Parallel processing, Technology transfer, Trends, Thinking Machines Corp., Massive Parallelism

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I.B.M. and Intel form chip alliance

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IBM and Intel Corp plan a ten-year cooperative agreement to develop microprocessors. IBM aims to better its competitive position in the microcomputer industry where the company has lost market share during the past five years. Development work will be done at a new facility in Boca Raton, FL called the Robert N. Noyce Development Center. The two companies will work on development together, and they will share rights to chips they develop. IBM will also obtain rights to manufacture some Intel 80486 chips for IBM products. According to Richard Shaffer, publisher of the Technologic Computer Letter, the IBM-Intel agreement will probably cause other companies, such as Chips and Technologies Inc or Advanced Micro Devices Inc, to form alliances of their own.

Semiconductors and related devices, Office machines, not elsewhere classified, Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Semiconductor industry, Microprocessor, CPUs (Central processing units), Intel Corp., INTC, Microprocessors

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