CS361: Operating System

Jian Huang — Spring 2012

EECS | University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Doug Slater - ComputerWorld 1969 - 1972

Trends


Sept 24, 1969

p.5 airline overbooking 
P.6 HUGE unterruptible power supply 
p.8 left column "Poor Solution" 
p.8 Nixon administration letter 
p.9 foreign attachments to Bell System tarrifs 
p.10 national time-sharing network p.10 OCR symposium leasing 
p.12 "Natinoal Academy of Sciences Explores Data Interconnection" tarrifs 
p.18 "phones data directly to the computer site" 
p.20 boot fashion preferenfces analyzed with computer 
p.21 highway location detected 
p.22 japan 2nd place computers ->bottonm right: Matsuzakaya Department Store 
p.23 security anbd cash transactions keyed in 
p.26 brokerage control system - hanbdle stock market transactions 
p.30 Autoflow. Advertising debugging, maintenance, documentation 
p.31 (center column) City of Boston - computerized traffic control, Credit Systems, Inc "instantaneous authorization of credit purchases" 
p.33 HP job ad 

Dec. 1, 1971

p.4 Computerized bus safer, cheaper 
p.6 airline schedulers
p.9 users' budgets surveyed 

May 3, 1972

p.3 lawful speeding 
p.4 Demand 'Live Demonstration' - improving phone line quality 
p.5 Trucks' License Plates held up p.6 Tunpike authority 
p.8 IBM Antitrust case 
p.8 copyrights vs. patents 
p.15 interconnection of non-bell equipment aids system

Dec. 20, 1972

front cover - modems in production front cover - security issues 
p.2 OTTAWA, Ontario 

Jian Huang / EECS /UTK / revised 01/2012