Computer Weekly 644

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Thursday, March 15, 1979

Price 18p

Publication Date : 15th March 1979

Publication Contents :

Page	Item
1	Portable 'ring main' system developed at Cambridge [Article] Peter Hewitt A team at Cambridge University have developed a portable minicomputer operating system, which "could herald a new era of machine independent distributed processing."
4	"You don't know me, but..." [Article] Derek Barber Article suggests some approaches to creating network protocols.
8	How a UK ops man in Tehran weathered the Iranian revolt [Interview] Bernard Allen Interview with Grenville Mills, a British computer operator formerly stationed in Tehran.
14	8086 'based on simple CPU' with control chips [News Item] Not credited Details of chips related to Intel's 8086 microcomputer are being released.
72	Printer manufacturers interested in lasers [Article] Not credited Some companies are investigating the potential of gallium arsenide lasers for storage and printing.

Creator : IPC

Format : Tabloid

Physical Description : Newspaper

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