AFIPS Press

[Philip Pemberton]

Jim Battle wrote:
> The BTI 8000 - Homogeneous, general-purpose multiprocessing
> by George R. Lewis and J. Shirley Henry
> BTI Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, California
> and
> Brian P. McCune
> Standford University, Stanford, California

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...

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