AFIPS Press

Jim Battle wrote: I've just fed this to my university's meta-search engine (which scans the ACM Digital Library, ISI Web of Science and most of the EBSCO databases) and only found one hit: Resource: Inspec (EBSCO) Title: The BTI 8000-homogeneous, general-purpose multiprocessing Author: Lewis, G.R. Henry, J.S. McCune, B.P. Citation: USA 1979, pp., pp. 513-28, xi + 1095 pp. Year: 1979 Abstract: With the price of computer hardware decreasing steadily and the scope of data processing applications ever rising, the problem of upgrading a computer system is omnipresent. The myriad of potential pitfalls includes losing an investment in purchased hardware and software, reprogramming applications, reformatting data files, retraining personnel, operating two different systems in parallel during the conversion period and reoptimizing finely tuned applications Subject: computer architecture multiprocessing systems multiprocessing computer hardware computer system software reprogramming parallel Imprint: Montvale, NJ, USA New York, NY, USA : AFIPS , 19790101. Type: Conference Paper Language: English Meeting: AFIPS Conference Proceedings, vol.48. 1979 National Computer Conference That came up in one of the citation databases, and SFX shows it as "not available for purchase". Whatever happened to AFIPS, they probably weren't absorbed into ACM or IEEE... -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/