NEC Corp has won the contract to create what is described as the largest library information network in the world, for the Peking National Library: the system will be built around two Acos System 630s – Bull DPS 7000-class low-end mainframes – supporting 270 individual PC-9800 personal computers as terminals; the contract is worth $6.5m […]
NEC Corp has won the contract to create what is described as the largest library information network in the world, for the Peking National Library: the system will be built around two Acos System 630s – Bull DPS 7000-class low-end mainframes – supporting 270 individual PC-9800 personal computers as terminals; the contract is worth $6.5m and the system will be supporting the latest Chinese language standards, an enormous 32,000 different characters for 60 national languages – they’d find life a lot easier in the modern world if they transliterated their languages into the Roman alphabet – and laser-printers.
